What explains the election of African Americans to a number of local and state positions by the mid-1960s?
a. African Americans were concentrated in the urban core ghettos where their voting power in these districts was not diluted by a large white population.
b. New laws passed in California and by the federal government had eliminated policies that discouraged blacks from voting.
c. More African Americans were finishing high school and going to college. This resulted in an increase in the number of blacks running for public office.
d. Many whites were beginning to see blacks as their equals, so they were more willing to vote for black candidates than they had been in the past.
Question 2
Brown's administration oversaw a number of changes in state government and electoral politics that earned California a national reputation for efficient government. These reforms included all of the following except
a. ending the cross-filing system in elections.
b. apportioning senators by districts based on population instead of by county.
c. creating the Constitutional Revision Commission to streamline the state bureaucracy, increase city and county control over local affairs, and implement other reforms.
d. supporting the division of assembly districts so that more minority candidates could be elected.
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