By 1877 both parties united on denying Black self-government.

Evidence

The parties and regions remained united on one issue. Blacks must quell their “new kindled ambition” and recognize their lack of Whites’ “hereditary faculty of self government,” said former Ohio governor Jacob D. Cox. Outgoing president Grant privately told his cabinet that giving Black men the ballot had been a mistake, and so did Republican presidential hopeful Rutherford B. Hayes. While a consensus formed on who should govern the South, division intensified over who should govern in Washington, DC. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 688

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the bipartisan convergence that made the Bargain of 1877 possible — useful against the naive reading that only one party was racist, a key nuance for the reader’s scheme.