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To: steinman who wrote (3616)	5/14/2001 12:06:12 AM
From: tradermike_1999	Respond to of 74559

After reconstruction most of the Southern states created new state constitutions which limited the voting base by having grandfather requirements and poll taxes. For instance with the poll tax you had to pay the tax a year in advance of the election and the tax kept most people from voting. People got used to not voting and it just got left to the wealthy and the political machines who paid their supporters taxes so they could vote. It was not just blacks who were disenfranchised, but most whites also. The Civil Rights movement changed all that, ironically though most southern whites today don't realize that if it wasn't for the Civil Rights movement they probably wouldn't be voting either.