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Red Shirts (South Carolina)
The Red Shirts of South Carolina were the supporters of Wade Hampton in the South Carolina gubernatorial election of 1876 and the gubernatorial election of 1878. They came to symbolize a revived Southern Nationalism and the redemption of the state from Radical Republican rule during Reconstruction.
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