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white primary  

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  • Closely connected with the history of the southern primary is the issue of race. A number of exclusionary devices were used to keep blacks from voting in the Democratic Party primary, which in effect was the election because the party had no real opposition throughout the South. [Source: Elections A to Z; White Primary]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WLTGGDTV-Z

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