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| By Tim Westley, PhD. | Historian, RPT The Republican Party of Texas "Jaybird-Woodpecker War of 1888-1890" |
| Imagine a time when black voters who were highly qualified, with numeric voting power, and united for common causes came to agreements to duly elect black and white colleagues to almost every post in a county and control it because of the black voting power. Imagine if their whites-only counterparts were ingrained with hate, jealousy, envy, and more, so great they choose to disregard the legal election process and have a hostile takeover by force to take over the county! This hostile takeover would be the sheer definition of a mob mentality whereby rules were ignored, bloodshed and death emerged, fair election procedures didn’t matter, and racism truly ruled the day! Well, imagine no more, this happened, in Texas under the watch of Democrat Governor Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross. |
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