AHC: Systematic subversion of the 19th Amendment

"A naive reader of the text of the Constitution would think that racial minorities have voted since 1870 and that women have voted since 1920. That is true of women - there is no evidence of systematic subversion of the Nineteenth Amendment - but emphatically untrue of African-Americans." https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu...icle=1097&context=public_law_and_legal_theory David A. Strauss, "Do Consitutional Amendments Matter?" (emphasis added)

AHC: Bring about this "systematic subversion" of the 19th Amendment. Don't forget that some anti-suffragists (both male and female!) warned against women's suffrage in terms just about as apocalyptic as those used by white supremacists against African American suffrage--it would destroy women's traditional role, menace the family, etc. But unlike the white supremacists, they pretty much gave up after the Constitution was amended against them. Can anyone see any scenario where they do attempt to subvert women's suffrage after it becomes the law of the land?
 
Maybe if women, on the whole, start supporting "radical" candidates/parties like the Socialists or Communists, you could see moves made to subvert their right to vote.
 
What if a group of anti suffergetts, staged a psycho drama, at the polls?
“While you waste time, on politics, your helpless children go without care.
I was reminded of the satire Day of absence.
 
Maybe if women, on the whole, start supporting "radical" candidates/parties like the Socialists or Communists, you could see moves made to subvert their right to vote.

Just supporting one party over the other should be enough to do it. If this happens early enough- before female independence becomes a big thing- you could see restriction laws based around the "head of household" or something.
 
Perhaps have the blame for Prohibition fall mostly on women?

A problem though is with racial discrimination you can avoid or limit contact with the group you're discriminating against. With women you're definitely related to at least one.
 
Perhaps have the blame for Prohibition fall mostly on women?

A problem though is with racial discrimination you can avoid or limit contact with the group you're discriminating against. With women you're definitely related to at least one.

Women are also far less likely to be heavily biased toward one party. In those days, most would be influenced by the views of their husbands or fathers, and tend to vote accordingly. And even now, anti-abortion Republicans can still get a respectable share of the female vote. Neither party has any real incentive to hassle them, whereas Democrats (then) and Republicans (now) did/do have a motive for suppressing the Black vote if they can.
 
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