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Before the enactment of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Party (in opposition to the Republican Party) strongly opposed the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Democrats were opposed to all attempts of Republicans to the equality of African Americans. The result of this (and also because of the deep dislike for the Republicans in the South, which unambiguously associated with the armies of the North) after completion of reconstruction in 1877 the Democrats took over completely in the deep south, which has become an area of influence of their masses for the next hundred years. Soon after, state governments began to implement various provisions (so-called Jim Crow laws), establishing a strict racial segregation. The Democratic President Woodrow Wilson introduced during his presidency, racial segregation at the level of the federal government.

Only a series of Supreme Court rulings in the 50s and 60 acknowledging the illegality of these practices, changing attitudes of the Southern Democrats (there were crucial attitude of President Lyndon Johnson), as well as between republicans coalition and moderate Democrats in Congress to adopt the Civil Rights Act (Civil Rights Act) and the Act on the Rights of the Election (Voting Rights Act) led to changes in these practices. It should be noted that even in 1956, 19 Senators and 77 members of the House of Representatives (all except two congressmen from Virginia came from the Democratic Party) signed the so-called. how to lose weight fast

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