ME:: tl;dr-ing The USA became a democracy when Black folks could vote which was in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed; Amanda Taub:: July 5, 2023:: When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy? - The New York Times
Discovered: Nov 8, 2025 01:20 (UTC) ME:: tl;dr-ing The USA became a democracy when Black folks could vote which was in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed; Amanda Taub:: July 5, 2023:: When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy? - The New York Times
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- Read the whole thing: Amanda Taub:: When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy? - The New York Times (archive.is link)
“As a person who studies autocracy, there’s no way I would code the U.S. as a democracy prior to 1965, before the passing of the Voting Rights Act,” Anne Meng, a University of Virginia political scientist, told me in January.