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86 Tex. L. Rev. 667 (2007-2008)
The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2007

handle is hein.journals/tlr86 and id is 675 raw text is: Texas Law Review Volume 86, Number 4, March 2008 Articles The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2007 J. Morgan Kousser* I. The Tangled History of the Voting Rights Act ................................... 670 A . L atest T w ists ................................................................................... 670 B. The Perils of Oversimplified, Partial Histories of Section 5 ........... 672 II. Strange and Ironic: C. Vann Woodward's View of Race Relations and Southern H istory ................................................................................. 674 III. The Institutionalization of a Flexible Provision: From Selma to Mobile, 19 6 5- 19 80 .......................................................................................... 6 78 A. Proxy Disfranchisement and the Evolution of Reform ................... 678 B . C entralized Efficiency? ................................................................... 681 C. Extension in Scope and Time .......................................................... 685 D. From Indianapolis to New Orleans, via Dallas and San Antonio, with a Retrogression to Cincinnati .......................................................... 689 E. Retreat to Mobile, in Confusion ...................................................... 697 F. Washington Outlook: Overcast ....................................................... 703 IV . R eb irth ................................................................................................ 704 A . R enew al .......................................................................................... 704 B . R erun s ............................................................................................. 7 13 C . R edefi nition ..................................................................................... 7 18 D . R ew ard ............................................................................................ 72 1 V . R edem ption ......................................................................................... 724 A . The C reation of an Era .................................................................... 724 B . R eaction .......................................................................................... 72 5 * Professor of History and Social Science, California Institute of Technology. A student of the late C. Vann Woodward, Dr. Kousser has served as an expert witness or consultant in thirty-two voting rights cases. I thank Peyton McCrary, Rick Pildes, Mike Pitts, and Mark Posner for suggesting important changes in this Article, as well as for saving me from many errors of fact and interpretation, and I absolve them of any responsibility for the flaws that remain.

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