You want to say that about extending the vote to blacks, too?
Jeesh!
Universal suffrage is a mistake. Not even all white men could vote, at the outset of the republic. Only white male property owners could vote.
Nowadays, only people who have a stake in the system should vote. No one on welfare gets a gote. No .gov employee gets a vote, unless military. No federal income tax paid, pre-deduction? No vote. Etc.
Excellent point.
When Blacks were given the vote they voted even more for Republicans than they do Demon today.
The first and most important suffragettes were Republicans.