[PeaRidge]

And by the way, that was not my position. I flatly stated that it was up to the states, but that the US Constitution did not specifically grant voting rights to people that you accused Southern states of eliminating from eligibility.

[donmeaker]

Certainly North Carolina eliminated freedmen and their decendents from voting from 1835 to 1865. That was a shameful state choice, for which I condemn them.