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To: FLT-bird

“After Republicans pushed through the 24th amendment that allowed non-taxpayers to vote.”

Complete BS. In 1962 (When the XXIV Amendment was passed) The Senate was 62 Democrat, and 37 Republican. The House was 261 Democrat, 173 Republican. In addition only 5 states out of 50 still levied a poll tax to vote. Those states were Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia. The other 45 states of the Union were not effected by the XXIV

Please explain how the Republican could push through the XXIV Amendment when they did not have control of the Congress of the United States. Also explain how just 5 Southern states that had poll taxes, at the time the amendment was passed made LBJ’s great society possible.
We await your response.


513 posted on 03/27/2019 6:15:59 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

I didn’t write the post you’re responding to.


516 posted on 03/27/2019 7:57:33 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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