The resistance to the Court’s malapportionment decisions was fast and fierce. Rural voters everywhere, but especially white southerners, claimed that the new standard would “make the urban parts and interests of this nation the unchallenged and total masters of our affairs.”15 That’s not what was happening, but as the New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg put it in another context years later, “When one is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”16
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