Funny how you discover the virtue of being fair when I apply *your* reasoning against *your* argument. Yet, if you object to conservatives saying "wait, pure, unchecked majoritarianism with no counterbalancing values can go bad places," well, that is the textbook example.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1381687057890873351 …
You're actually certain that there was an anti-Jim Crow majority in Arkansas in 1910?
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We'll never know.
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During Reconstruction there were numerous cases of poor, generally up-country whites joining blacks in Republican majorities. You could imagine an anti-Jim Crow majority coalition in a lot of places, even if it's not the white voters' principal issue.
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Ah, picking the state that best suit your argument.
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No, I'm not certain. But I do know the white folks in Arkansas in that era certainly feared the possibility, which is why they were so vicious in not taking that chance. They restricted the franchise to ensure their grip on power.https://bit.ly/3sbocAz
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I mean, they killed black people who tried to vote. That's a lot of fear about what the vote could do, correct? So whose judgment should we accept, those of the white people at the time who feared what the ballot could do? Or you, who says the problem was too much democracy?
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