1965 Civil Rights act with black Majority states

In OTL South Carolina, and I think Mississippi had black majorities at the time that slavery was abolished.

The Reconstructions governments in those states were wholly dependent on black votes.

By various semi legal and wholly illegal means black people were disenfranchised between the 1870s and the 1890s.

By the time the 20th Century Civil Rights act disproportionate numbers of black people had left the South and no states had black majorities. Actual transfer of political power was not, therefore, a consequence of the Voting Rights Act.

WI there had been black majority states in 1965. Would it have been possible to insist on enforce adult suffrage against the local power structure without a lot of difficulties.
 
In OTL South Carolina, and I think Mississippi had black majorities at the time that slavery was abolished.

The Reconstructions governments in those states were wholly dependent on black votes.

By various semi legal and wholly illegal means black people were disenfranchised between the 1870s and the 1890s.

By the time the 20th Century Civil Rights act disproportionate numbers of black people had left the South and no states had black majorities. Actual transfer of political power was not, therefore, a consequence of the Voting Rights Act

But LBJ's Voting Rights Act (as well as his Civil Rights Act and the 24th Amendment) did transfer power, regardless of the fact that African-American US House seats didn't come in until the '70s or that no state had a black majority.

WI there had been black majority states in 1965. Would it have been possible to insist on enforce adult suffrage against the local power structure without a lot of difficulties

You have to butterfly away the economic cycles of the previous century, and handwave majority black states into the twentieth century...

Either the state's Democratic establishment provokes mass migration as official policy by midcentury, even subsidising the people to leave, or they go as far as seeking a US contitutional amendments to join the 'Black state' to a 'White state'--though the first option would be much easier than second.

(Maybe they dissect Mississippi in two, keeping the white portion as 'New Mississippi', and sede the black parts to the neighboring Southland states. Gerrymandering a state to prevent black demographic--though obviously not political--dominance earlier in the century is more likely a scenario than a scenario in the '60s where the president is sending the 101st Airbourne to install a duly elected AA governor and majority black state legislature, constitutional officers etc.)
 
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