The year is 2020 correct? And not 1950. When reconstruction ended in the southern states moved to enact laws that would, in their minds keep the south the south. Repression was the stated goal and it worked. Until the 1950's when the Civil Rights movement took hold and people and rights organizations began fighting back against their oppressor's. I wasn't easy. Even after land mark ruling's like Brown vs. Board Of Education and the passage of the Civil and Voting Rights Southern states continued to fight any progress made by African Americans. In 1969 Richard Nixon with help of Rodger Ailes (Who would help create Fox News) and Patrick Banchan the Southern Strategy would be conceived. They idea was to not only attract disactivated Dixie Crats to the Republican party but institute new forms of voter suppression and intimidation. Efforts that continue today with the closing of minority only polling stations, eliminating or reducing early voting days, gerrymandering of districts and passing laws that require a specific type of idea to vote. And now this: Governor Greg Abbott has decided to deploy the Texas National Guard to polling stations throughout the state. All in an effort to "protect" the vote.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced that he is deploying troops to the polls in the state, something that a president can’t even due because it can suppress the vote.
“The Texas Army National Guard said Monday it had been ordered to dispatch 1,000 troops to five major cities around the state in conjunction with the Nov. 3 election,” San Antonio Express-News reported on Monday.
It sent people into flames of rage claiming that it was an example of a Republican governor behaving like a segregationist from the 1950s.
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