Bamberg County, South Carolina
As a result, African Americans have comprised a large portion of the workers and population for much of the county's history.Most of the majority population of African Americans, who had supported the Republican Party during Reconstruction and the nineteenth century, had been disenfranchised by Democrats under the 1895 state constitution and related laws.After excluding blacks from the political system, the white-dominated legislature passed Jim Crow laws imposing legal segregation.Most blacks did not recover the ability to vote until years after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.As a result of the exclusion of black Republicans, white Democratic voters controlled elections in this state and others of the former Confederacy for decades, creating the Solid South.They elected Democratic presidential candidates by nearly unanimous margins of victory, while preserving all the power associated with apportionment based on total population.President Harry Truman ordered integration of the military and took other initiatives on civil rights issues.He had gained considerable support among whites in the South, a sign of what has become a nearly total shifting of their alliance to the Republican Party.[23] As of April 2024[update], some of the largest employers in the county include Denmark Technical College and Voorhees University.
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