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Opinion: Voter suppression in red states un-American

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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There is nothing un-American in the federal bills and a whole lot of needless monkeying around that has gone into changing state voting rights.

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About the time Richard Nixon was in office, the GOP had completely switched from being the party of defending voting rights for minorities to being the new Dixiecrats.

For clarity, Dixiecrats were a holdover from Reconstruction of the South, when there was considerable pushback against the reforms instituted after the Civil War.

Now Mitch McConnell is leading the Republicans in the quest to suppress voting in America, by opposing the two proposed federal voting rights laws, which would usurp the onerous state voting laws being passed in red states.

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What’s in the federal bill and what are in the states’ bills? There is nothing un-American in the federal bills and a whole lot of needless monkeying around that has gone into changing state voting rights with targeted bills. Mitch McConnell and his team in the Senate are the new and very best friends of the Old Jim Crow.

Gerald Lance Johannsen
Carlsbad

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