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« on: October 07, 2014, 06:32:38 PM »
Quote from: R2D2 on October 06, 2014, 06:31:38 PM
Gotta stop the blacks from voting, it's what our founding fathers would want.

Except you have to remember that most states were prohibiting felons from voting before African Americans were given the right to vote.  So quite clearly, this was not done as a proxy to stop blacks from voting.  For an interesting timeline, see here.
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