Ninety two percent of purged voters were older than 65.

Click the ZIP CODES to find your purged Southern Sector friends and neighbors:
ABSENTEE PURGED VOTERS
Lancaster - 75134   75146
Cedar Hill - 75104   75106
DeSoto - 75115   75123
Duncanville - 75116   75137   75138
Oak Cliff - 75208   75211   75224   75232   75233   75237

IN-PERSON PURGED VOTERS
Lancaster - 75134   75146
Cedar Hill - 75104   75106
DeSoto - 75115   75123
Duncanville - 75116   75137   75138
Oak Cliff - 75208   75211   75224   75232   75233   75237
Notice that while there were thousands of purged voters spread across the Southern Sector, zip codes 75106, 75123, and 75138 did not have a single purged vote.

Three questions must be answered:

1. Who purged these voters and why?
2. Why were elderly Blacks purged, except for three zip codes?
3. What is Dallas political leadership doing about it?

But first a little history.

For a hundred years Texas was a one-party state that suppressed Black voters.

There were several low points during the period:

1. Governor Jim Hogg urged passage of "Jim Crow Laws".
2. Senator Alexander Watkins Terrell promoted the "White Primary" law "to counter vote fraud".
3. Beginning in 1902 Texas required the payment of a tax to vote.

In addition for nearly 50 years the City of Dallas was controlled by the Ku Klux Klan. The National Grand Wizard, Hiram Wesley Evans of Dallas, boasted that Klan Chapter 66 was the largest in the nation and strove to make it a national political power.

The 1924 Presidential Convention in Madison Garden featured so many white-robed delegates that the New York Daily News referred to the event as the "KlanBake".

The eventual nominee John W. Davis of West Virginia went on to be crushed by Calvin Coolidge. Evans' national ambitions were over but there was still plenty of work to do in Dallas. The final peak of Dallas influence was the election of local Klan leader Robert L. Thornton as mayor in 1953.

The US Supreme Court overturned the "White Primary" law in 1944, but Dallas would have the poll tax for another 13 years. The City honored R. L Thornton with a freeway.

During that period Dallas Blacks were disenfranchised by the thousands. These were the people who ran things in 1953.

Seventy years later Dallas Blacks are once again being disenfranchised by the thousands. These are the people who run things now.

Famous WHO philosopher Peter Townshend opined on how little things change in "Won't get fooled again".

       Meet the new boss,
       Same as the old boss!

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