Well, in many places the specific voter id racism came into play when they were targeting "local" minority groups, like the native americans in the dakotas, or latinos in the southwest, by deliberately taking a cross-section of possible id methods which excluded as many of them as possible, poor whites or blacks or any other minorities being caught in the mix were just a bonus if they were likely to vote [D] anyways.
Not all of them were or are racist, they generally are all classist as fuck, but much like redrawing districts to include and exclude specific groups of voters, race is often a heavy factor.
I mean, just looking at
my areawhat was my area until we got chopped into the 8th?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%27s_9th_congressional_districtI wonder what led this district map:
To be replaced by this one in 2013:
Whatever Republican strength is left in the 9th centers in three areas: 1) the affluent neighborhoods near and to the east of Interstate 240's eastern rim; 2) scattered white-majority precincts in the far southern and southeastern neighborhoods of the city of Memphis, near the Mississippi state line; and 3) the town of Collierville. However, they are always swamped at the ballot box by the African-American majority of the city's population, along with a growing number of liberal whites in neighborhoods such as Midtown and Cooper-Young. The latter constituency is only one of two of its kind in the entire state, the other being a (much larger) coalition of liberal, well-educated, middle-to-upper-income professionals and employees of higher education and the music industry who live in Nashville.
You might not be able to tell by looking at that map, but the chunks cut into the pre-2013 map indicate that this quote was posted before the redistricting.
Good lord, the 3rd is amazingly contorted to fit through that gap between the 2nd and 4th.
Wait, we were next to the 7th until 2013 and now that is all 8th district?
Damn, for those who don't know, those parts of Memphis covered by the 9th are either really poor, really black, or both.
Median income $33,806
Ethnicity 36.1% White, 59.7% Black, 1.5% Asian, 3.0% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American, 0.3% other
OH HEY LOOK AT THIS:
http://sos.tn.gov/products/elections/what-id-required-when-votingBriefly you could go to a library and get one of the free photo ids and use it to vote here.
Now you gotta go to the dmv.
"Well the dmv offers free photo ids too!"
In case you didn't notice, that second map is zoomed out significantly compared to the first one. Wonder who is hurt more by having to drive completely across town to obtain valid id for voting? Certainly it isn't a problem for folks who already have a valid driver's license and vehicle, so who does that leave?