By the 1880s and 1890s legal segregation was linked to the white elite's successful attempt to disenfranchise black voters and reassert the power of the whites-only Republican Party against inroads made during Reconstruction by a more diverse southern Democratic Party.

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The white elite's attempt to disenfranchise black voters and reassert white supremacy was linked to the Democratic Party in the South, not the Republican Party. During Reconstruction, the Republican Party was actually the party that supported rights for black Americans, while the Democratic Party in the South sought to restore white dominance through legal segregation and disenfranchisement of black voters.

By the 1880s and 1890s Legal Segregation Was Linked to the White