AHC/WI: American Suffrage Retains Property Requirements

Basically what the title suggests, keeping the Property-Ownership Prerequisite for Voting Rights and the potential effects thereof of American/World History.
 
Basically what the title suggests, keeping the Property-Ownership Prerequisite for Voting Rights and the potential effects thereof of American/World History.

I guess a more influential South might do the trick.....how, exactly? I'll leave that for others to explain.
 
Far to many political leaders had a incentive to increase their voter base by extending the franchise. The growing urban populations who more often rented were a attractive addition to the polling registrar.

If in fact the property requirement remained firm, then post Civil War the freedmen would be far less a threat to the small landowning rural southern upland farmers, thus reducing the post war political & social tensions and the 'Terror' of the latter 1860s.

It is also possible the working classes would have a greater incentive to own a small house or tiny bit of acreage so as to gain the vote and patronage of the local politicians.
 
a far more concerative electorate. Huge changes way before this but from the 2012 election choices president Santorium I think.
 
Basically what the title suggests, keeping the Property-Ownership Prerequisite for Voting Rights and the potential effects thereof of American/World History.
Either it goes, or there's violent revolution.

There really isn't much of a middle ground. It wouldn't make communist rhetoric a matter of interpretation that the current government really serves propertied interests: it'd be an explicit, legal fact. And the people who do not qualify for suffrage, will still toil in the factories, pay taxes, and be drafted into the military to die for the interests of a government they have no say in.

It isn't a stretch to think that they're going to want to change this state of affairs, violently if necessary.
 
I'd imagine that it would lead to much greater political power for farmers. This would lead to more conservative politics most of the time, the exception being during the progressive era when the farmers in the plains states were amazingly radical. Unfortunately I don't know enough of the details to make much more then a wild stab at what the effects would be.
 
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