"We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it."
— Benjamin Tillman

January 1, 1970

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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenatePoliticians from South CarolinaWhite supremacistsGovernors of South Carolina
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Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27.