Admitted states gave Republicans a lasting Senate majority core.

Evidence

A white mob consisting of many Confederate veterans attacks protesters outside a convention in New Orleans, which has been called by Republican leaders in response to the state legislature’s passage of a law denying African Americans the right to vote. Among those killed in the ensuing violence is Anthony Paul Dostie, a white abolitionist who led the march on the convention. The mob also kills more than thirty-five other people, mostly Black men. National outrage over the violence helps lead to Republicans gaining control of both houses of Congress in that year’s midterm elections. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 762 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Balanced state admissions locked in the antebellum slavery status quo. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 295; White Southern violence against Black voters backfired by driving Republicans to power — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 762

Related

• White Southern violence against Black voters backfired by driving Republicans to power (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• White Southern violence against Black voters backfired by driving Republicans to power #expands (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 762