. >> when i first saw this, the ge north carolina pretty starkly, both at registration and then at voting. so you immediately think disenfranchisement whenever you see that kind of agenda because we know that's going -- that there will be a gender gap. if you look across states, it seems to be relevant to disenfranchisement laws. there's this gigantic gap. >> it's definitely historic. you go back and look at the documentsen women were trying t the vote. the issue with the black vote was you can get black men to vote and it's not going make a difference. if you get black women to vote, it's going to be a problem. >> it gets messy. if you go badge to nashville in the teens, you find white republican women working with black women int of the franchi franchise. >> up until the point of when the amendment actually came through and then there was a huge split, working with, to the extent black women said we'll leave as long as you actually take out the states rights piece. but anyway. >> we have another question here. >> my name is lon allen i graduated from the law school just four years after

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