By Lorraine Gates Schuyler
After the ratification of the 19th modification in 1920, thousands of southern girls went to the polls for the 1st time. within the Weight in their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the implications this had in states around the South. She indicates that from polling locations to the halls of kingdom legislatures, ladies altered the political panorama in methods either symbolic and significant. Schuyler demanding situations renowned scholarly opinion that girls didn't wield their ballots successfully within the Twenties, arguing in its place that during kingdom and native politics, girls made the main in their votes.Schuyler explores get-out-the-vote campaigns staged through black and white ladies within the zone and the reaction of white politicians to the surprising enlargement of the voters. regardless of the cultural expectancies of southern womanhood and the stumbling blocks of ballot taxes, literacy assessments, and different suffrage regulations, southern girls took good thing about their balloting energy, Schuyler indicates. Black ladies mobilized to problem disfranchisement and grab their correct to vote. White ladies lobbied nation legislators for coverage adjustments and threatened their representatives with political defeat in the event that they did not heed women's coverage calls for. therefore, while southern Democrats remained in strength, the social welfare rules and public spending priorities of southern states replaced within the Twenties because of girl suffrage.
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139 As white women engaged in electoral politics, they mounted a steady critique of men’s traditional political methods. Their efforts to clean up the polling places were a criticism of men’s ways of voting, and when women organized voter registration drives or get-out-the-vote efforts, they censured men who had prided themselves on keeping the system closed. Moreover, these attacks on male politics were often executed in distinctly female ways. For example, when the Alabama League of Women Voters staged an exhibit designed to increase voter turnout, it arranged elaborately costumed dolls in the window of a Birmingham bank building to illustrate Americans’ low voter participation rate in comparison to other democratic countries.
Change in Voter Turnout after Suff rage, 1920 Presidential Election Table 1. Trends in Voter Turnout before and after Suffrage, 1912 – 1920 Alabama Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Change in Turnout – Change in Turnout – Change in No. S. elections ›. 20 Once the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, politically active white women worked to make the polling places their own, and they transformed the polls into respectable spaces.
91 At the other extreme, some wives and mothers in this rural county contended that politics was no place for women and expressed their support for the existing patterns of male authority: “I don’t believe in women voting. If I did and my husband did not want me to I wouldn’t. 93 Despite these wide-ranging opinions, nearly all the letters to the editor reflected a belief that woman suffrage portended changes not just at the polls but in households and marriages as well. Like the antisuffragists’ rooster left to care for a nest full of eggs, one Putnam County man predicted that with women “run[ning] the government machine,” chaos would reign in the home.