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this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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What in the dystopia is going on in the south? Grief.
If Southern governments didn't do things like this to their populations this country would look much different. This is why Southern governments want as few white people voting as possible and do everything they can to ensure that. Restricting public services so that only the voting class has access to basic accommodations through private means is another way of keeping oppressed people away from the political process.
Lee Atwater wanted poor whites to vote.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
To re-phrase: as few people voting as possible in general, and among these voters as few challenges to established US white supremacy as possible.
Next, libraries. Next, women reading. Next, anyone not in a specified socioeconomic class reading.
Or just books, period.