lex loci---law of the place

"States' rights", the lex loci of black oppression, enabled former Confederate states, who lost their war of secession and their right to maintain slavery, to resume their despicable disparate treatment of America's black citizens who were all then overwhelmingly Republican, as though they had won the Civil War. This hands-off-the-South policy enabled Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, to assume the Presidency in 1877, in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina, the instation of the lex loci, and the benign neglect of newly earned black constitutional and statutory rights. Samuel Tilden, the Democrat who "lost" that Presidential election due to this Congressionally-brokered post-"Reconstruction" compromise, thus emerges as the South's true hero, more so than any cavalier or general, who all were decisively defeated in battle by their former slaves, called "contrabands," and after 1863 called soldiers and sailors, who won the war and preserved the very "Union" which now turned its back on them in exchange for political and economic gain among traitorous, avaricious "whites" of the North and South, whose "lex loci" policies nullified the United States constitution, itself.