A common refrain among conservatives is that black people should get over slavery. Last week, the Tennessee legislature withheld $250,000 from Memphis’s bicentennial celebration budget, punishing the majority-black city for removing three Confederate monuments. J. Harvey Mathes, a Confederate soldier, to a nonprofit that took the monuments down last year. In 1917, the Georgia legislature established the county unit system, which operated until 1962 and allotted votes by county in primary elections instead of allowing the popular vote to decide those elections. So candidates could win the county unit vote without winning the popular vote.

Source: New York Times April 25, 2018 19:11 UTC