Salon: Southern White Protestant resistance to change similar to the North in the early 1900's.

[SpartanDem]

7. What states were those election rigging laws proposed, again?

With the exception of VA all those states were Midwestern blue states. I think the author completely over looks the urban/rural divide on this matter, this racial resentment isn't just limited to the South. In MI it was justified by some outstate legislators because Detroit "skews" vote for the rest of the state, which is just thinly vied racial code. Rural MI and the rest of those states are for most part homogeneously white. Now that resentment wasn't strong enough to actually get these laws passed, but the fact that they were proposed shows it does exist.

That said, I do think in the future these election rigging laws actually get passed in the South. Take a state like Georgia that Obama lost only by 6% I have a hard believing rural Georgians are going let themselves be outvoted by Atlanta.