Women's Suffrage:
A movement that resulted in the 19th amendment to the United States constitution; allowing women the right to vote.
We often hear people blame poor voting outcomes to women being able to vote, but if we were to look at the history of voting (using Presidential elections as an example) we see White men and White women don't vote differently by any significant factor. The next nearest demographic (Latino men) vote by an average factor four times greater; the rest are incomparable.
Ironically women were first given the right to vote, to increase the White voting power by successfully diluting the share of Non votes:
"Votes of the White women of the State will be one solid obstacle to any measure that would impair either for them or their children the continuance of White supremacy." —Walter E. Clark, NC Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Women being able to vote ultimately never mattered, what mattered was Nons being able to vote.
Don't "repeal the 19th", repeal the ability of Nons to vote.
A movement that resulted in the 19th amendment to the United States constitution; allowing women the right to vote.
We often hear people blame poor voting outcomes to women being able to vote, but if we were to look at the history of voting (using Presidential elections as an example) we see White men and White women don't vote differently by any significant factor. The next nearest demographic (Latino men) vote by an average factor four times greater; the rest are incomparable.
Ironically women were first given the right to vote, to increase the White voting power by successfully diluting the share of Non votes:
"Votes of the White women of the State will be one solid obstacle to any measure that would impair either for them or their children the continuance of White supremacy." —Walter E. Clark, NC Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Women being able to vote ultimately never mattered, what mattered was Nons being able to vote.
Don't "repeal the 19th", repeal the ability of Nons to vote.