Although barriers to minority voters are more subtle today, the report says, they are not gone - and they are no longer concentrated in the South.
"This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines," Lee said. "But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law." |