White Rage

by Carol Anderson

  13. Stephanie Siek and Joe Sterling, “Census: Fewer White Babies Being Born,” CNN, May 17, 2012, http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/census-2011-data-confirm-trend-of-population-diversity, accessed September 4, 2015; “U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious: Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before,” Pew Research Center, November 3, 2015, http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/, accessed December 29, 2015.

  14. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

  15. “Former Florida GOP Leaders Say Voter Suppression Was Reason They Pushed New Election Law,” Palm Beach Post, November 25, 2012, http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/early-voting-curbs-called-power-play/nTFDy, accessed September 8, 2015.

  16. Jane Mayer, “The Voter Fraud Myth,” New Yorker, October 29, 2012.

  17. Ari Berman, “The GOP War on Voting: In a Campaign Supported by the Koch Brothers, Republicans Are Working to Prevent Millions of Democrats from Voting Next Year,” Rolling Stone, August 30, 2011.

  18. Jim Rutenberg, “This Looks Like a National Strategy: Interview of Ari Berman,” New York Times Magazine, August 17, 2015.

  19. Mayer, “Voter Fraud Myth.”

  20. Jeremiah Goulka, “Are Voter ID Laws a Form of Racism? A Former Republican Tells It Like It Is: Voter ID Laws Unfairly Burden Minorities,” Mother Jones, October 15, 2012.

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  22. Katie Connolly, “Poll: Majority of Republicans Believe ACORN Stole the Presidential Election,” Newsweek, November 9, 2009, http://www.newsweek.com/poll-majority-republicans-believe-acorn-stole-presidential-election-210966, accessed September 5, 2015.

  23. “ACORN Accusations,” Factcheck.org.

  24. Richard L. Hasen, The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 54–59.

  25. Ibid., 61.

  26. Mayer, “The Voter Fraud Myth.”

  27. Anderson, Eyes off the Prize, 64.

  28. “Althea Simmons Leads Move to Disqualify Rehnquist,” Jet, September 15, 1986, 16–17; Tova Andrea Wang, The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012), 46.

  29. Jason Stein, “Voter Fraud Convictions in State Don’t Match Claims,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 25, 2012.

  30. Amy Bingham, “Voter Fraud: Non-Existent Problem or Election-Threatening Epidemic? Voter ID Laws Aim to Prevent Fraud but Does Voter Fraud Even Exist?” ABC News, September 12, 2012.

  31. “Romney Supporter Wears ‘Put the White Back in the White House’ T-Shirt at Ohio Campaign Event,” Huffington Post, October 13, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/13/romney-supporter-wears-put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house-campaign-event-ohio_n_1963583.html, accessed November 18, 2015.

  32. Max J. Rosenthal, “Texans Allowed to Show Gun Permits But Not Student IDs at Voting Booth,” Huffington Post, November 16, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/texans-gun-permits-student-ids-voting_n_1095530.html, accessed September 5, 2015.

  33. NAACP and NAACP-Legal Defense and Educational Fund, “Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America,” 4.

  34. Georgia Department of Drivers Services, “Checklist of All Accepted Documents,” http://www.dds.ga.gov/secureid/accepteddocs.aspx, accessed September 5, 2015; U.S. State Department, “Fees: U.S. Passports and International Travel,” http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/fees.html, accessed September 6, 2015.

  35. Brennan Center, “Citizens Without Proof: A Survey of Americans’ Possession of Documentary Proof of Citizenship and Photo Identification,” http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_39242.pdf, accessed September 5, 2015.

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  39. Goulka, “Are Voter ID Laws a Form of Racism?”; Emma Roller, “State Puts Brakes on Plan to Close DMV Sites,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, August 4, 2011, http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/126814653.html, accessed December 25, 2015.

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  49. Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. ___ (2013).

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  51. Brief of Amici Curiae Jurisdictions: That Have Bailed Out in Support of Respondents and Urging Affirmance, in Shelby County v. Holder.

  52. NAACP, “Stop the Spread of Voter Suppression,” pamphlet.

  53. ACLU, “The Battle to Protect the Ballot: Voter Suppression Measures Passed Since 2013,” https://www.aclu.org/map/battle-protect-ballot-voter-suppression-measures-passed-2013, accessed September 6, 2015; Wendy R. Weiser and Erik Opsal, “The State of Voting in 2014,” Brennan Center for Justice, June 17, 2014, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/state-voting-2014, accessed September 7, 2015.

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