Timjoebillybob
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- Feb 27, 2009
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That may well be. But you specifically stated Jim Crow, not the old Connecticut constitution.Literacy tests were not isolated to Jim Crow south... one of the first was Connecticut... to keep Irish immigrants from voting:
Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Connecticut was the first state to require a literacy test of would-be voters and, even as the practice came under fire as a tool of discrimination, the state held steady until 1970.connecticuthistory.org
It's interesting with respect to the discussion here, but much of the PR for the literacy tests was about making sure someone had a minimum level of intelligence. or eduction, so their vote actually meant something.
It was just a "coincidence" that it blocked a lot of Gaelic speaking immigrant Irishmen up north, or a bunch of illiterate former slaves down South... wink...wink... nod... nod.
Literacy tests remained in use, in some locales, until the 1970 Revision of the Voting Rights Act.
You are also the one who conflated literacy and comprehension with IQ in this thread. Education I'll agree with. As I stated I can't comprehend quantum physics, I'm no Stephen Hawkins, either in intelligence or pedophilic tendencies. But I believe I'm intelligent enough to comprehend them (quantum physics) with education. Or could have done so a few years ago, dogs and tricks as they say.