Steven Levitsky Quote
These reform measures effectively killed democracy in the American South. Even though African Americans constituted a majority or near-majority of the population in many states, and even though black suffrage was now enshrined in the Constitution, legal or neutral-sounding measures were used to insure that the Southern electorate…would be almost all white. Black turnout in the South fell from 61 percent in 1880 to just 2 percent in 1912.
Steven Levitsky
These reform measures effectively killed democracy in the American South. Even though African Americans constituted a majority or near-majority of the population in many states, and even though black suffrage was now enshrined in the Constitution, legal or neutral-sounding measures were used to insure that the Southern electorate…would be almost all white. Black turnout in the South fell from 61 percent in 1880 to just 2 percent in 1912.