However, the data indicate that nearly all of the gains toward equality in voter turnout occurred between 1952 and 1964—before the Voting Rights Act passed—and that modest gains made between 1964 and 1968 then almost entirely halted for the rest of the century—a shocking fact, entirely consistent with the other “foot off the gas” phenomena we have observed, as well as our now familiar turning point from “we” to “I.”
