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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)

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[–] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Where is this? Outside of HOA nonsense, I thought property ownership died as a requirement in the 1800's.

I guess the slightly less doxx-y question is: what states still allow that crap?

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New England

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was so sure your town was doing something unconstitutional because it sounded so blatantly wrong. Found the answer and man, your state needs to sort that shit out.

Fwiw, a few MA towns are going the other way: pushing the state to allow noncitizens to vote in TM.

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah town was founded around the Civil War and I suspect that has something to do with the way it is now. Had a brief klan revival in the 80s and 90s, and, given the size, hitting way above our weight for number of people arrested for january 6