• Devolution@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The south never stopped fighting. They just got dirtier. If we can’t own people, let’s segregate them and invalidate their votes by weakening specifically where they reside.

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      10 days ago

      They always tried this kind of shit since the Civil War in one form or another. Lynching, literacy tests, poll taxes, gerrymandering, incarceration and probably a few others I’m forgetting. They even use the same excuses from 150 years back.

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      10 days ago

      I don’t necessarily disagree, but I feel like its worth pointing out that gerrymandering was first used in Massachusetts.