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The term "white primary" refers to the practice in the United States, particularly in the South, of restricting primary elections to white voters only, effectively disenfranchising Black voters and other minorities. This exclusionary system was established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as part of Jim Crow laws, aimed at maintaining white supremacy in the political process. White primaries were a crucial mechanism for ensuring that only white candidates could advance to the general elections, significantly impacting civil rights and political representation until the practice was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1940s.

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