Minority Politics

Historically, poll taxes in federal elections meant individuals had to provide money in order to exercise the right to vote. This effectively disenfranchised minority voters. However, the 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the poll tax in the 1960s, (Gonzalez and Moore, 1). Despite this Amendment, minorities are still disenfranchised in American politics due to the advent of ôprivately financed election campaigns,ö (Gonzalez and Moore, 1). This system of funding elections heavily counts on the income of wealthy, white donors and puts minorities who cannot afford to make such donations at a disadvantage for representation. Gonzalez and Moore (1) argue that in the past two election cycles, ônine out of 10 donations over $200 to federal campaigns came from individuals in majority non-Hispanic white ZIP codes.ö The study also showed that though nearly one out of three Americ

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