A One-Party South

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Two weeks ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These
first two weeks have resulted in one-party rule in the South,
depriving millions of Black voters from fair representation, as
Republicans gerrymander without restraint. We've seen a One-party
state South before. After the Civil War, reactionary white
southerners use state laws, intimidation, harassment, and
violence to prevent Black people from voting. By 1880, the South
was solidly Democratic, which it would remain until the 1960s.
Wilmington Coup.

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