The answer is because they’ve always done it and they hate black Americans. In 1834, when freed black Americans could vote in 9 of the 13 original colonies, the legislatures met to vote in North Carolina on whether to strip away the rights of black Americans to vote, to disenfranchise them, and the MAGA conservatives won by a vote of 66-61 to change their state constitution to strip them of their rights. It worked and they were disenfranchised. At the time 10 percent of the black population were freed black Americans, of 33,000 of 330,000. That stopped the Southward spread of black voting, though it remained above the Mason-Dixon line in northern states, were freed blacks had been voting since day one.
In 1873 in Louisiana, the MAGA conservatives (then in the Democratic Party) brought guns and a small cannon out into area where the black American Republicans and some white Republicans were organizing their campaigns and party. The MAGA’s open fired and killed over a hundred, then dragged 50 more black American Republican Party members into the woods and executed with extreme prejudice. This was called the Colfax massacre.
In 1876, the MAGA Conservative wing of the Democratic Party drew up the “Edgefield Plan” to attack and disenfranchise black Republicans and some white ones in counties in South Carolina. They assembled a militia of Red Shirts led by future Governor and US Senator Ben Tillman and rode in to kill over a hundred black American Republicans in Hamburg and Ellenton, SC. They then surrounded the ballot boxes with guns to prevent black Republicans from voting. They killed 5 black federal American soldiers and a duly elected black Republican official.
In 1878, in Louisiana the MAGA conservative wing killed over 4,000 black Republicans across Louisiana to insurrect the vote of the opposing party. All the notes and evidence was sent to the federal Marshall in that state and a federal investigator was sent in, who was tailed the entire time. Before the trial started on this insurrection 1879, the Attorney General at the USDOJ cancelled the trial through a process call Nolle Prossed, which means he voided the trial so there would not be a verdict in these political massacres. The information though and the testimony of many black Republicans was put into the 1880 Senate report which remains on their website, 1,500 pages, in the Minority Report.
These are but a handful of examples across that region of slaughter, which included several trials in 1870 where the governor MAGA conservative candidate who lost the election admitted he saw hundreds of examples of whippings, beatings, and killing of black and white Republicans, party members and election officials as he canvassed the state — though he said he had nothing to do with it. But he knew it was the finest white men in the state in those groups of whites conducting the violence and murder to disenfranchise black American Republicans out of election. That resulted in a 9 volume 15,000 page report from Congress.
It all came to a head as black Republicans refused to stop registering. The MAGA conservatives devised the “Mississippi Plan,” a true dystopian vision for disenfranchisement that they executed by rewriting their state constitutions one by one, with, as the now Governor Ben Tillman openly boasted, to pass with the “sole intent” to disenfranchise the black American votes. Before he called the vote, ex congressman and black Americans Small stood up and told the white legislators to serious think about what they are about to vote on. He said that 53,000 black Americans were killed in the Reign of Terror leading up to this vote. The vote then took place, and the MAGA conservatives disregarded what he said and voted to pass the new constitution whose “sole intent” as Governor Tillman said, was to disenfranchise registered black Americans. After it passed, true to his word, 97 percent of black American registered voters were disenfranchised, about one hundred thousand. That scene, and open admittance by white MAGA conservative officials to pass a new state constitution to disenfranchise black Americans, just like in South Carolina in 1834, passed. In Lousiana the same result of tens of thousands disenfranchised and about 3 percent remained. In Mississippi where white MAGA conservatives in the Democratic Party started this “craze,” the same thing. In Alabama, 184,000 black Republican Americans registered lost the right to vote in 1903 of the 187,000 registered in 1900 after the new constitution passed.
By 1908, with all 15 states have rectified state constitutions with the “sole intent” of disenfranchisement of black Americans, all these states became single party blue states with almost no opposition, except the occasional white republican plumped up to give the impression of democracy, which had actually been eliminated. Disenfranchisement remained in force, though some black Americans did qualify to run in South Carolina for congress and Senate in 1918, 1924, 1928, and a black Senator who ran in 1944, inspiring 41,000 black Americans to register to vote. He lost of course in the early round. But it singled a great change and a hunger among black Americans tired of being disenfranchised by threat of death and violence and poll taxes and test, and a federal government who didn’t care to enforce their rights given to them in constitutional amendments there were using. This was where the Civil Rights movement started, inside that hunger.
When some black Americans tired to register in Mississippi in the 1950s who were organizing black Americans to register, they walked out of the office and were shot to death, which of course disenfranchised them indirectly, seeing they were now dead. The threat became so strong, that in April 1964 the Democratic (MAGA conservative-wing) Senator and head of the armed services committee, Dick Russell, wrote to the president (in a letter I have a copy of, like all the other documents I openly gathered) and warned him that he would never support that vile Civil Rights bill. He then quit the party, making good on this threat, along with almost all his MAGA conservative wing allies across that region and headed over into the southern Republican wing of that Party, which they gutted in the 1890s and early 1900s under the Mississippi Plan as described. They then yelled and screamed and took over that Party completely, in every decade continuing to pass local and state laws to disenfranchise black American voters.

When you talk of disenfranchisement, you should know it is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, it’s not even a phenomenon in the MAGA conservative South east across 15 states. It’s a way of life they’ve been fighting for in every decade since 1834 when the black vote threatened to take over their states but was stopped in North Carolina and reversed. This wing is so deeply dedicated to its cause, and to returning their states to single party system they created from 1900-1965, they will continue to do anything to gain it back and have been, eroding the Voting Rights Act in every decade just they attacked Roe v. Wade in every decade until it was repealed successfully last year. The MAGA conservative wing on the Supreme Court is voting on the last scarp of protection on the VRA and they will win, overturn it.