Dirty Boots: Voter turnout changes the outcome of elections.

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. In the Deep South, voting has never been a simple prospect. Whether we talk about the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, which counted 60% of slaves for Congressional representation, or the one-party “Solid South,” too many anti-democratic schemes have stood in the way of one-man, one-vote. Sadly, however, since the 1965 Voting Rights Act forbade the old ways, new methods have arisen to disfranchise voters,… Read more Dirty Boots: Voter turnout changes the outcome of elections. →