Na, the issue is they aren't a part of the government.
First and foremost:
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any
primary or other election for President or Vice President, ....
Then of course, you need to start thinking like a bastard:
If the "its not really the primary" thing held up, then there would never, ever be a "real" primary. There would just be the "not real" primary, but everyone would know what this meant: an attempt at an endrun of the law.
Aside from the fact that the amendment is rather broad, you need the reason why. See, In order to understand this, you have to understand Jim Crow Laws and the amazing BS the south did in order to try and stay as racist as possible. Every time a portion of Jim Crow was struck down, they would try to change a little tiny piece of it and just keep being racists.... They knew it would take forever to get through the US Supreme Court
again to challenge the "new" Jim Crow Law. This was the old Jim Crow law with a minor tweak and everyone damn well knew it. Even when you finally reached that court, again, they'd just rinse and repeat so you'd have to work your way all the way up to the US Supreme Court, again. Their plan was to do this forever....
What do you suppose this means: "As the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and used federal courts to attack Jim Crow statutes, the white-dominated governments of many of the southern states countered with passing alternative forms of restrictions."
At some point, The court got sick of this shit and repeatedly seeing them, again, and again, and again.... This was back on the Warren court, which employed judgment and reasoning instead of slavish devotion to the legislature. This resulted in verdicts like
Brown v. Board of Education. We seem to have forgotten that the Judiciary is an independent co equal branch of government and not the legislature's lapdogs. This failure to remember is why corporations are now "people" with "free speech rights." Warren would've beaten this argument out of his courtroom....
Listen to what the Wikipedia article is not saying:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxNo, the only real victory racists in the US have found is privatization. That's right, privatization is the tool of racism in the south, because if you aren't the government, all those restrictions and civil rights, don't apply (goes their argument). Unfortunately, most of the time they are right unless you can prove this is their hidden intent. The thing about hidden intents is they are hidden and hard to prove. Massive resistance to desegregation was lead by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr and they closed schools instead of desegregating them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education#Social_implications Naturally, they didn't stop educating their kids when they shut down the public school, rather they just opened up a "private school" which only admitted the white kids....
This is not an historical argument either, things have not changed, why do you think they "canceled" the public high school prom but had a "private" prom party:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/TheLaw/aclu-files-lawsuit-school-cancels-prom-lesbians-request/story?id=10076018
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36178446 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/24/national/main6328407.shtmlAnd of course, guess who all the locals blamed for "making them cancel the prom"
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-26/living/constance.mcmillen.tension_1_prom-summer-internship-mississippi?_s=PM:LIVING That's right, let's blame the victim. replace "gay girl" with "black" and you've got jim crow situation....