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After skimming through, the author uses present tense for the rate: " Greenwood County, which has the highest lynching rate in South Carolina with 6.87 blacks
by scanny 7y ago
After skimming through, the author uses present tense for the rate:
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Greenwood County, which has the highest lynching rate in South Carolina with 6.87 blacks lynched per 10,000 people in the black population in 1900,...
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But then uses past tense for the voter turnout
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... had a black voter registration rate in the 2008 presidential election of 72.4 percent.
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But I am not sot sure that I understand why either.
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoI don't think they're limiting the time period for the lynchings. So although the rate is based on the population in 1900, it's not limited to that year or decade, so it's not past tense.