Negro Voting in a Border Community

In recent years interest in Negro voting has led to a variety of studies of Negro political behavior in Northern communities and of the Southern pattern of disfranchisement. The Border states -have not been subjected to similar scrutiny. A survey of Negro voting in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma and West Virginia would help round out our knowledge of Negro voting in the United States and may suggest the Negro voting behavior ipattern which might evolve in Southern states if restraints upon the exercise of citizenship privileges were removed. The Southern system of suffrage barriers is virtually unknown in the Border states; Negroes in these states may vote without being confronted with legal, administrative or social hurdles except in some isolated areas. At the same time, the Border states share common cultural and race relations traditions and the tendency towards one party politics with the South and continue to receive a large number of in-migrants, both Negro and white, from the Deep South. The 1,189,558 Negroes comprised 8 per cent of the Border state population in 1950 and 9.2 per cent of the voting age group. From this it has

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  Tracy E K’meyer•The Sixties•2009

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