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Indiana s evolution on race? IT S COMPLICATED White supremacy runs - sometimes subtly - through history Trevor Foughty At the conclusion of the Civil War, Congressman Daniel W. Voorhees gave a speech in which he declared that the most important question of the day was, “Shall the white man maintain his supremacy?” Voorhees hoped the answer would be in the affirmative, but these were not the words of a bitter Confederate, or secret Klansman, or fringe lunatic; they were the words of a mainstream Hoosier politician, who in the course of his career would serve three years as the U.S. district attorney for Indiana, nine years as a member of the U.S. House from Indiana, and nearly 20 years as an Indiana U.S. senator.

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