The Decline of Black Power in the South: The Republican takeover of state legislatures has left African-Americans without effective representation
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
To understand the depth of the damage that the Supreme Court’s June 25 decision, Shelby County v. Holder, has inflicted on the voting rights of African-Americans, you have to measure it against the backdrop of the takeover of state legislatures, primarily in the South, by …