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i want to be clear. written by the university of massachusetts at boston, sociologists and a political scientist. and the washington post, you know, sort of poelsed it on their monkey cage blog. but it just demonstrates empirically, right, no ideology here, that in states where african-americans turned out to vote in big numbers, in the next year you start seeing legislative efforts for voting rights restrictions. there was 180 bills introduced in 41 states after the 2008 election to restrict voting rights. what happened in 2008, the first african-american president was elected. it didn t take much to put two and two together. i think this was the worst year for voting rights since 1877 when troops pulled out of the south and end reconstruction. not saying it s similar situation because it s different now. but southern states are reacting in the same way. okay, we can go back to doing what we did before, discrimin e discriminating against people at the ballot box. now they re sayin