Black Political Zone

Macon, Mississippi is at the center of controvery over the local elections. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether whites votes have been suppressed by blacks in the town. The New York Times reports:

The action represents a sharp shift, and it has raised eyebrows outside the state. The government is charging blacks with voting fraud in a state whose violent rejection of blacks’ right to vote, over generations, helped give birth to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet within Mississippi the case has provoked knowing nods rather than cries of outrage, even among liberal Democrats.

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