The story read like something straight out of Stalinist Russia. But this casualty list was in the United States in the twenty-first century. Virginia: 41,637 purged.1 Florida: 182,000 purged.2 Indiana: 481,235 purged.3 Georgia: 591,549 purged.4 Ohio: two million purged.5 With the flick of a bureaucratic wrist, millions of Americans—veterans, congressional representatives, judges, county officials, and most decidedly minorities—were erased.6 To
