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Actually, the regional disparity in rules about felon voting goes back to before the Civil War, when blacks in the South were slaves and no one even thought of them voting. Free blacks mostly couldn’t vote in the North, either. [
, ProCon.org, June 25, 2013].
This regional disparity is caused by the same thing that causes many regional disparities different cultures, based on patterns of settlement, which go back to the regional disparities in the British Isles. David Hackett Fischer’s
Albion’s Seed (subtitle: “Four British Folkways in America”) says that the South differs from the North in terms of what historiographer Fischer calls “Order Ways” and “Freedom Ways”, not to mention “Religious Ways”, which means that the South has a different “honor culture” than the North.
Two more people have been arrested by the Genesee County Sheriffâs Office task force that conducts undercover operations to catch human traffickers and people who plan to engage in sexual relations with children.
This unit, GHOST, also known as Genesse Human Oppression Strike Team, has now arrested 83 people this year.
âOur GHOST team has not stopped. Itâs called proactive policing,â said Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson during the Wednesday, Dec. 16 weekly briefing thatâs broadcasted on Facebook. âHuman trafficking, you know all too well in Genesee County, is a real threat to society, especially to the most vulnerable.â
Bill Gates recommends, take 2
Back in 2015 I asked the Hudson Institute’s John Walters to take a look at Michelle Alexander’s dreadful but influential
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Mr. Walters turned his attention to Alexander’s book together with his Hudson Institute colleague David Murray. Subsequently posted in footnoted form on Hudson’s site as “Revisiting ‘The New Jim Crow, ” the essay below was written for us. I want to add it to my own comments in “Bill Gates recommends” yesterday:
This book (hereafter, TNJC) is careless. The carelessness produces misdirection and it undermines the argument. Facts are stretched, the scholarly apparatus is weak, and the core argument is often contradicted by its own evidence.