Yes, Chief Justice John Roberts - The South Is More Racist Than The North
The U.S.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights act requires nine states, mostly in the South, to get permission from the federal government before they change their voting procedures.
The VRA was passed when Southern states used extreme measures like "poll taxes" and literacy tests to keep blacks away from the polls. Chief Justice
Roberts asked a lawyer for the U.S. during arguments last week whether the feds thought citizens in the South were more racist than citizens in the North.
A couple of academics have come up with an answer for this question. In a word, yes.
UC Davis law professor Christopher Elmendorf and UC Berkeley doctoral student Douglas Spencer analyzed data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election survey about nonblack Americans' attitudes towards blacks.
Election Law Blog first reported the preliminary results.
In their preliminary results, they found a "strong correlation" between six of the Southern states covered by Section 5 and anti-black prejudice.
Here's the chart they came up with, using two different methods to analyze the data:
Suffice it to say, Elmendorf and Spencer wrote, the Supreme Court should think twice before striking down the Voting Rights Act.
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