Foreword: This post is a bit on the short side but important with all these controversial elections as of late.
One of those interesting little facets of contemporary American historiography is its proclivity to censor or heavily misconstrue various events and eras in order to criminalize Southerners. Yet in actuality, many of the acts of “generosity” often characterizing our Yankee saviors were acts of evil based solely on nothing more than to spite their Southern countrymen with little regard for the effects it would have on the Negro communities. However, the effects on the negroes will not be the focus of this piece; it will instead be the impact caused by the little known SCOTUS case Gray v Sanders.
Down in the not-so-Deep-South-but-still-the-Deep-South Peach State, politics carry a long history of division and lack of unity. Generally speaking, the state’s historically large cities tended to dominate politics to the chagrin of rural areas, a much more common trope today. Most notably, Atlanta and the surrounding cities tend to dominate much of the political game, and Georgians knew this. Atlanta has never been a liked city and has always been notoriously non-Southern, even during the antebellum period. Being fed up with urban rule, Georgia passed the Neill Primary Act of 1917.
This act turned the gubernatorial electoral system of the state into something similar to the Electoral College with each county having certain amounts of votes, known as units. What got the Left’s salt mines flowing was the favor the units gave to the rural counties, instead of the urban areas. It put the two types of regions on a playing field which favored the conservative minded rural folk. What followed was several governorships in which the elected official did not win the popular vote, and the liberals threw fits claiming the system was unfair. Men like Eugene Talmadge won on multiple occasions due to this electoral method. Of course, the Left would have none of this, and so the case Gray v Sanders was brought before the Supreme Court in 1963. The case struck down the county unit system, and established “one person, one vote” in gubernatorial elections.
It is quite astonishing how forgotten the case is. Since then, Georgia has rarely had genuinely rightwing governors since then. The state, as well as, many others are now tethered permanently to the whims of the ever expanding urban cesspools full of immigrants, carpetbaggers, and violent minorities. Just recently, several Southern states have faced close calls in important elections, and others have totally flipped blue. Virginia is now dominated by communists, Brian Kemp was barely elected in Georgia, Tate Reeves faced tough opposition in Mississippi, and Florida and Texas are purple.
The main takeaway here is the fact Dixie has no means whatsoever of saving its electoral cycles. The Supreme Court and federal government have ensured we are powerless to stop them, and they have gone to great links to cover up why.
“The White people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.” –Strom Thurmond