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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Maybe we should add, "And there never was," but we can't revise history.
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C'mon, MS is NOTORIOUS for voter fraud and tampering over 30-40 years ago... That is WHY Eldridge Cleaver and the three young voter registrars were killed... It is a very ugly and negative chapter in history.
The only reason I know is because it was drilled in my head as a child by my parents. Whether that makes it right or wrong, who knows? But my husband's parents gave the middle name of "Eldridge" to my husband and "Cleaver" to his brother's middle name (dunno if that sounds right)?
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I was just wondering whether there's stuffing going on for both sides?
The media certainly doesn't help the situation when they rove around battleground states giving air time and credence to the members of the loosing party who have stories about the police impeding their access to vote, etc. Of course, those stories may be on the up and up. I have no idea as I've never been a repressed minority (unless you count being a Catholic in Oklahoma).
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In the past, there was stuffing throughout the South before the Voting Rights Act... That is why President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into law.
Now, I wouldn't know if there is stuffing boxes in MS in one racial group vs. another. There may be stuffing in that one county, Noxubee unfortunately done by AfAms, who may be thinking that it is okay to turn the tables as retribution. But, wrong is wrong. Vote fraud is overall foul.
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I suppose that factor might validate the feelings of many who would hope that this is a lawful vs. unlawful fight rather than a political, or worse, racial one. I fear the later to be the case, however.
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Kevin, I really don't think so, if we were truly discussing completely disenfranchised people, that would be one thing. It is a totally different situation from the viewpoint of representation "by the people, for the people".
MS is dead last on several measures - education, health and economic poverty. I think Toyota is leaving and Boeing is avoiding them... There is very little economic success in that state. It is a VERY sad state of affairs. Places like Darfur in the Sudan and Rwanda combined have better economies. That reflects very poorly on the US.
But after Hurricane Katrina, MS, got SOME FEMA assistance... But back to pre-Katrina levels--no.
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It could get very interesting down there if the closed primary forced most Republicans to switch tickets, thus watering down the Democrat base. I think in the long run, this more-less exposes the weaknesses of the closed primary system and how it tends to disenfranchise minority-party voters.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear that the above is an impression of another poster on this forum.
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The issue I think in MS is most AfAms down there do not trust the Republican party. IMHO, that is the problem with the South verses the West Coast, they are still so segregated that people fail to communicate. Confrontation and shouting matches probably don't occur because of the avoidance. So no one ever knows what is really going on if they choose to not speak or fail to communicate.
Whereas, the Caucasian folks have yet to deal with their own issues.
IMHO there sorely needs some "Redemption conferences" to move beyond the hatred.
PM me to know who you think it is.
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