Jim Crow Era: Continuities and Similarities in Recent Voter Suppression Acts
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2017-07-04
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In this thesis I will set out to determine if it is possible to compare the partisan political landscape and subsequent voter suppression laws successfully to the voter suppression laws and increasingly partisan political landscape of the period between 1996 and 2012. I will do this by researching and analyzing multiple elements of voter suppression of both the Jim Crow era and the period of 1996-2012. Elements that will be analyzed include the poll tax, white primaries, early voting, felon disenfranchisement, and voter identification laws, and will only be researched from the perspective of states below the Mason-Dixon line. The outcome of the analysis will provide the tools to answer the research question. I will then argue that the voter suppression laws and partisan political landscapes of both periods bear many similarities and continuities to one another, and that they can indeed be successfully compared.
keywords: partisanship, voter suppression, Jim Crow, poll tax, white primaries, early voting, felon disenfranchisement, voter-ID
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