@mollyesque @ElectProject More seriously, this data-set interestingly contradicts historians who say women's suffrage reduced turnout
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@HeerJeet@ElectProject Does it? Post-1920 avg is certainly lower than 19th cent avg.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mollyesque@ElectProject Right, but it looks like voter participation already in steep decline before 1920 and went up slightly after.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@ElectProject True...is the theory that suffrage diluted voter pool (increased denominator) or discouraged men from voting?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mollyesque Given women vote allegedly altered male bonding culture of elections, leading to lower voter turnout. I don't think that's so.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mollyesque Right. I suppose you could argue even before suffrage proper women becoming more politically active.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mollyesque And the whole culture of voting was changing, becoming more respectable and regulated. 19th century voting was rough & tumble1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@mollyesque I suspect it might not have been women so much as progressive-era clamp downs on immigrant & black voters.
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