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And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Happening, or perceived to happen, over a period of time; "synchronic" is simultaneous. In the litcritty world where I learned the terms, narrative is diachronic -- you can't help but start, and go on, and end; visual art is synchronic -- you can see it all at once.
(and, weirdly, I spent a long time searching my mind for those two words the other day and couldn't find them)
If you can't get to it in 4 hours and/or on an interconnected set of train and public transity systems, why bother??
Because otherwise gardening would be really boring. Microclimates! Macroclimates! Gooooo team!
What year did African Americans get the vote and what year did women?
I can't remember exact dates, but African Americans were around 1868 and women were around 1920.
1868? Sorry hit post too fast.
Was it really that early? Wow.
African Americans were around 1868
But there's a whole lot of Jim Crow tied up around this.
Which I don't have the details on, US history being a weak point of mine.
Although practically speaking, it was both earlier and later than Hil's dates, because individual states gave rights at different times (northeastern states gave the right to non-whites earlier, and poineer states in the west were all about the women's vote), but practice and tradition made for "Oh yeah, it's technically legal, but no way you actually get to do it" situations in many parts of the country for a long time.
1868?
I just checked. It was the 15th amendment, which was ratified in 1870.
Wasn't there some country (GB, maybe?) which gave voting rights to WWI war widows, then extended them to all women?
I believe the vote was extended to African Americans via the 15th amendment to the constitution, ratified in 1870.
t edit x-post with Hil. And what Nutty said.
moonlit, yes, it is here
Universal male suffrage was 15th Amendment, 1870, but...
Women, formally by the 19th Amendment in August 18, 1920. Some states had it earlier.