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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
I don't think that's accurate... at all. Or even close.
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Poll taxes were in place in various states until 1966, the only people who had to pay them were black people (or more specifically non-whites as they had exemptions for the white folk that allowed them by and large to not pay the tax), so they had to pay to play may be a better way to explain it.