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The Jim Crow South was exceptional in the degree of suffrage restriction, but that doesn’t make the rest of the country somehow innocent. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 6, 2021 Hibernated

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Voter registration, literacy tests, and secret ballots were first used in the North to disenfranchise immigrants (and blacks) before they made their way down South. Progressive reformers touted them in the 1890s and 1900s. Here’s Koussar on this: https://t.co/oEg16TUCMs — PolitiTweet.org

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This also gets back to the question of distinctions: What makes today *different* is the extent to which American political culture has a normative commitment to universal suffrage which it did not have a century ago. That matters. Fin. — PolitiTweet.org

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