[Savage Beast]

Looks like these people are long-time supporters of the Party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the poll tax, and The Democratic WHITE Primary.

[Theodore R.]

I am unsure if LA had a white primary (declared unconstitutional in 1944), but I know that SC and TX did. LA kept many illiterate and semiliterates from even being able to register: hence LBJ's Voting Rights Act of 1965. When the mass of blacks began registering and voting, they chose the party of LBJ, which they associated with the fulfillment of JFK's civil rights promises. Until 1915, LA exempted illiterate and semiliterate whites from the requirements of its voter literacy test: under the "grandfather clause."