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batchman's avatar

I bet that women are disproportionately missing too. And indigenous folk and Spanish speakers. If it didn't happen to, or concern, white men, it didn't happen.

Another quibble - 35 SQUARE blocks? Was this a 5 block by 7 block area that was approximately square? Or was it a square that was 35 blocks on a side? Or are you just quoting a sloppy account? Bring on the square acres.

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Jamie Laidlaw's avatar

Excellent post. The absence maintained the disenfranchised condition. When Barack Obama sought the Democratic nomination that set of a counter reformation. Anyone for a cuppa Woodrow Wilson?

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