Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It's not just partisanship
The Brennan Center made a fascinating discovery when it analyzed exactly where these restrictive voting laws were concentrated. It’s too simple to say voter suppression laws spring solely from naked Republican partisanship. They also arise from racial animus.
“White racial resentment — and not just party and competitiveness alone — goes a long way toward explaining the phenomenon,” Kevin Morris, a Brennan Center voting policy scholar, wrote in his 2022 report.
As Morales-Doyle put it: “Legislators who represent the whitest districts in the most diverse states are the most likely to introduce restrictive legislation. This is consistent with the idea of ‘racial threat,’ of people responding to the growing political power of communities of color in these places.”
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Not all the news is bad, though, as Morales-Doyle pointed out. In 2022, many election deniers ran for office, including to serve as election officials, but none of those candidates prevailed in the battleground states.
“We still live in a democracy,” he said. “It has its flaws, but voters want people to have access to voting. That is my reason for hope.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-26/voter-suppression-race-youth-election-2024-donald-trump-georgia-supreme-court-robin-abcarian
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Duh! If only white middle-class people voted, the Repukes would win at least 50% of their races, maybe more. This is how gerrymandering got started. Minority voters tend to be concentrated in cities and high-population voting districts. So that makes it easy for Repukes to target minority voters ... where most of them live and vote.
where racism is defined as "NOT WHITE CHRISTIAN"
Since the "southern strategy" fired up racism as their only way to win as their policies (when they actually HAD policies) were spurned by majority.
All fascists play the race/antisemitism card.
Take away the racism and they have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Six states are "majority minority" already and more to come.
Their cause is lost and they only serve Vlad Putin in trying to tear down democracy from the inside, because they have been taught to FEAR and blame others.
People who follow them are being played. Their jobs, futures, clean air and water were taken away by the same fatcats they support in the name of a "Lily-white Christian regime" and beg to lose even more.
Only a few stand to benefit in any fascist regime, and many of them are dispatched for suspicion, because dictators fear everyone.
