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Cabang-cabangnya menyebar ke Alabama dan negara bagian lain di Ujung Selatan. Kelompok paramiliter serupa adalah [[Kaus Merah (Amerika Serikat Bagian Selatan)|Kaus Merah]], yang berasal dari Mississippi dan aktif di Carolina. Kedua kelompok paramiliter tersebut berkontribusi pada perolehan kembali kendali Partai Demokrat di badan legislatif negara bagian pada akhir tahun 1870-an. Kaus Merah masih aktif pada tahun 1890-an dan terlibat dalam [[Pemberontakan Wilmington tahun 1898]] di Carolina Utara.<ref>[http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/1898-wrrc/report/Chapter3.pdf LeRae Umfleet, "Chapter 3: Practical Politics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030434/http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/1898-wrrc/report/Chapter3.pdf|date=2015-09-24}}, ''1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report'', North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources</ref> Pada hari-hari menjelang pemilu, komandan di Eufaula memperkirakan akan terjadi masalah tetapi diperintahkan oleh kantor pusat di Kentucky untuk menjauh dari pejabat lokal terkait pemilu dan tidak mengganggu pemilu dalam keadaan apa pun. <ref>Wiggins, Sarah Woolfork. The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991</ref>
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The White League refused to count any Republican votes cast. But, Republican voters reflected the black majority in the county, as well as white supporters. They outnumbered Democratic voters by a margin greater than two to one. The League declared the Democratic candidates victorious, forced Republican politicians out of office, and seized every county office in [[Barbour County, Alabama|Barbour County]] in a kind of [[coup d'état]].<ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56">Curtin (2000), "Black Prisoners," p. 56</ref> Such actions were repeated in other parts of the South in the 1870s, as Democrats sought to regain political dominance in states with black majorities and numerous Republican officials. In Barbour County, the Democrats auctioned off as "slaves" (for a maximum cost of $2 per month) or otherwise silenced all Republican witnesses to the events. They were intimidated from testifying to the coup if the case went to federal court. Eventually, the rioters stood before a grand jury, and the grand jury blamed the "militant" black Republicans for the tense atmosphere in Eufaula. <ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56" />
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