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Moral Combat: The Right to Vote

O'Reilley, Katie
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4526

Publisher:  Against the Current
Date Written:  01/11/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

In June 2013, substantial sections of the Voters' Rights Act of 1965 - a promise to African Americans that they could finally register and vote without fear of intimidation, retaliation, violence, and death - had expired. They were in fact those protective provisions put in place after hundreds in the South were killed in the name of voter suppression.

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It is debatable whether North Carolina - a competitive state perceived as a burgeoning economic powerhouse with some of the nation's finest universities - had become frustrated with its struggling economy and took a chance on GOP rule, or whether it had more to do with Republicans' aggressive 2011 redistricting of the legislature, passed when then-governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat, held no veto power.

Red-ruled North Carolina counts 2.7 million registered Democrats to two million Republicans. But it is in 2012 that the current crop of conservative GOP-ers assumed control of North Carolina's House, Senate and Executive branches - their first such sweep in 140 years. By the time the ballots were tallied, many Southern progressives had seen their enlightened swing state, long known for its singular political shade of deep, Dixie purple, now becoming an incubator for Tea Party-style policies.

Nowadays, in response, some say that the state formerly known as the South's beacon of progress is undergoing its third Reconstruction. Expressing this view perhaps most vehemently is Reverend William Barber II, the broad, mustachioed and charismatic leader of the South's largest state NAACP chapter and recent recipient of the International Martin Luther King Jr. Award for peace.
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