"Grandfathered" comes from from laws passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s to disenfranchise black people. States created new restrictions on voting but exem

"Grandfathered" comes from from laws passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s to disenfranchise black people. States created new restrictions on voting but exempted descendants of people who had been allowed to vote before black people were allowed to vote. You could vote if your grandfather could, in other words. The exemptions came to be called grandfather clauses.