Democrats Versus Democracy: The Southern Response to the Voting Rights Act | The Journal of Politics How do dominant groups respond to electoral interventions designed to help minority groups? This article posits that when democratizing interventions empowering subordinate groups are imposed upon dom...

Thrilled to see this available online at JOP. TL;DR: southern states & counties reacted to the VRA by eliminating elected offices to prevent newly empowered Black voters from electing preferred candidates.

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Converse (1964)

Happy holidays to all of you other OCD types wrapping today. May your angles be perfectly 90 degrees and all of your folds be crisp. Peace be with you.