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Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) bristles

that the Voting Rights Act unfairly targets the South because of its past: “Do we treat the British any differently because of the Stamp Act? If we’re going to do that, then let’s go back to the Indians and say they butchered Custer.”

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