Perspective: Historically, when the federal government enforces the 15th Amendment, it means more competitive races in the South. Today, those involve Black candidates.
Collectively, these contests exemplify the importance of the Black vote in the Deep South — especially during the rare occasions in Southern history when the region has had a genuine, two-party competitive system of politics. Such systems have empowered Black voters, and in each historical moment when this has happened, their support has been key to victory in Southern elections.
Alarmed by the threat posed by this expansion of democracy, White Southerners seeking to preserve the region’s racist caste system responded with a variety of tactics.
But it was not until the early 1970s, and the advent of “New South” Democratic governors, that Black voters began to play a decisive role in national and statewide elections in the region.In 1971, Ebony magazine said that: “Perhaps in no facet of life in The South Today have blacks forced as significant a change as in politics.” And Southern politicians knew it. In 1970, Democrat John C. West of South Carolina ran on a platform that acknowledged the gains of the civil rights movement.
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