The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... Ironically, the last two listed were not Southern laws; respectively, the last two were laws of Arizona and Maryland (84). ...

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