[Dataman]

Barton is great. He's probably the number one irritation for American history revisionists who want to remove God from government.

[jtminton]

This needs to be sent to Je$$e Jack$on, Al $harpton, and the rest of the unelected 'Leaders of the Black Community' that badmouth Republicans.

[stainlessbanner]

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[Paradox]

Wow, great essay! Bookmarked!

[FairWitness]

Following is excerpted from a book I bought lately:

State	Year of Statehood2	Year of Requirement	Race
Alabama	1819	1819	White
Arkansas	1836	1836	White
California	1850	1849	White
Connecticut	1788	1715 1818	No Requirement White
Delaware	1787	1737 1792	No Requirement White
Florida	1845	1838	White
Georgia	1788	1789	No Requirement3
Illinois	1818	1818	White
Indiana	1816	1816	White
Iowa	1846	1846	White
Kentucky	1792	1792 1799	No Requirement White
Louisiana	1812	1812	White
Maine	1820	1819	No Requirement
Maryland	1788	1776 1801	No Requirement White
Massachusetts	1788	1780 1821	No Requirement No Requirement
Michigan	1837	1835	White
Mississippi	1817	1817	White
Missouri	1821	1820	White
New Hampshire	1788	1792	No Requirement
New Jersey	1787	1776 1807	No Requirement White
New York	1788	1777 1821	No Requirement White, or "Man of Color, meeting property/tax requirements.
North Carolina	1789	1776 1835	No Requirement White
Ohio	1803	1802	White
Pennsylvania	1787	1790 1838	No Requirement White
Rhode Island	1790	1762 1842	No Requirement No Requirement
South Carolina	1788	1790	White
Tennessee	1796	1796 1834	No Requirement White4
Texas	1845	1845	"Africans, and descendants of Africans" excluded
Vermont	1791	1786	No Requirement
Virginia	1788	1762	White
Wisconsin	1848	1848	White

¹Source = The Right to Vote; The contested History of Democracy in the United States, by Alexander Keyssar, Basic Books, New York, 2000. The above is an abbreviated version of a Table which also lists citizenship and "Native American" requirements. Cases where a state changed their original requirement are indicated, with date, in the Table; there were also many cases where a state reiterated their original requirement, at a later date, by statute or constitutional change, but these are omitted for brevity.
²Or date admitted to Union for original 13.
³Georgia's 1777 constitution explicitly limited the franchise to whites, but their constitutions of 1789 and 1798 did not. All secondary sources agree that blacks could not vote, but a very extensive search has not turned up a clear legal basis for that exclusion.
⁴White, "provided that no person shall be disqualified from voting in any election on account of color, who is now, by the laws of this State, a competent witness in a court of justice against a white man".

[TomServo]

Bookmarked..

[South40]

There is no black voting rights. We must vote democRAT or we're traitors.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

You can't let facts and history get in the way of "The Agenda" It's too important.


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[cwb]

Some great reference material, here. I look back at LBJ's embrace of the 1964 Civil Rights Act...and realize what a fraud he and the Democrats pulled on the American people. It was only a few years early, that he, as Senate Majority Leader, gutted most of Ike's Civil Rights Acts of '57 and '60. For all the talk of helping po' black folk, it was LBJ who not only supported a poll tax to keep blacks from voting, he was also against federal lynching laws. At least he (and the NAACP) had the courage to recognize that it was Republican, Everett Dirkson, who deserved the credit for tirelessly working to get the 1964 CRA passed.

What most people don't realize...but was even acknowledged by Congressional Quarterly, was that Eisenhower was responsible for the greatest advances in Civil Rights in the past 80 years. As has even been noted here, most of what was in the 1964 Act, was what Ike and Herbert Brownell (Ike's AG) proposed in their original drafts of the '57 and '60 Civil Rights Acts, but were watered down by Democrats such as LBJ. These facts need to get out.

[elbucko]

Excellent post: i.e. Its language was taken from the wording of Eisenhower’s original civil rights bill (before it was gutted by Democrats) and from proposals made by Eisenhower’s civil rights commission. [136]

Republicans have consistently used the motto of Ronald Reagan; "It's remarkable what you can get done if you don't care who takes the credit". A Republican president, Eisenhower, was the first Chief Executive since the Civil War to send federal, active duty troops (not Nat.Grd.), into the South to enforce the Constitution. The Democrats have never forgiven Republicans and, at the same time, have taken all the credit for the advancement of civil rights.

[Perseverando]

Bump!

[Washi]

So, I'm bumping this 6 1/2 year old thread to see if anyone can fill in the missing parts for me.

This essay doesn't say what happened between the mid 1960s, when Republicans passed the civil and voting rights acts over the objections of the Democrats, and now.

What happened that shifted the black vote away from the Republican party? Did the black community leave the Republicans, or did the Republicans leave the black community?

[Mojave]

Good read.

[EdReform]

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