[mc5cents]

There is graphic form is the definition of insanity, i.e. doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

Only one question, why begin in 1936? That was when FDR started handing out the goodies from the public treasury. Well maybe I just answered my own question.

[Wallace T.]

The irony is that Southern Democrats effectively disenfranchised blacks through “white only” Democrat primaries (almost all of the former Confederate states were dominated by Democrats), as well as literacy tests and poll taxes. By these means, whites dominated black majority counties in areas such as the Mississippi Delta. Southern state legislatures were lily white between the 1890s and the 1960s, and were dominated by Democrats.