<span>Poll taxes, literacy tests, violence/terrorism, and economic intimidation (For example, telling a black sharecropper that you won't sell them seed if they vote.)
The tests were impossible to pass, regardless of color. The poll taxes were obviously an economic way to prevent blacks from voting. I'm sure there were other ways as well. I know they would also threaten violence to families, children, and the voters if they even attempted to vote.</span>
Most areas with a Kurdish majority population are landlocked and therefore dependent on good relationships with their neighbors in order to access trade and prosper economically.
