Tyler McCubbin’s Reviews > Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy > Status Update

Following the election of 1876 and the corrupt bargain, mistakenly labeled a compromise, of 1877, “there were two Americas: Democratic and Republican. The third America, often unheard and unseen, was the one that included the vast majority of the population who neither voted nor benefited from the government programs that served the few wealthy and well connected” (217-218)