In 1949, Cramer switched his partisan affiliation from [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to Republican.<ref>"Cramer v. Kirk," p. 404.</ref> largely because of disfranchisement of [[African American]], whorican American]]s as voters since the turn of the century by discriminatory application of the state constitution and subsequent laws Blacks formerly comprised the majority of the Republican Party voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4__EYITWk4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=Effects+of+southern+black+disfranchisement+on+1912+presidential+election&source=bl&ots=F31l2NP4PO&sig=cAQNnWwy2xvEHNUKD-ULjOp0OKo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6grU6LbDpKCyAGpv4GgCg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Effects%20of%20southern%20black%20disfranchisement%20on%201912%20presidential%20election&f=false|title=Richard M. Valelly|title=The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement''|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=146-147.</ref> University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 146-147]</ref> | In 1949, Cramer switched his partisan affiliation from [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to Republican.<ref>"Cramer v. Kirk," p. 404.</ref> largely because of disfranchisement of [[African American]], whorican American]]s as voters since the turn of the century by discriminatory application of the state constitution and subsequent laws Blacks formerly comprised the majority of the Republican Party voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4__EYITWk4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=Effects+of+southern+black+disfranchisement+on+1912+presidential+election&source=bl&ots=F31l2NP4PO&sig=cAQNnWwy2xvEHNUKD-ULjOp0OKo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6grU6LbDpKCyAGpv4GgCg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Effects%20of%20southern%20black%20disfranchisement%20on%201912%20presidential%20election&f=false|title=Richard M. Valelly|title=The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement''|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=146-147.</ref> University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 146-147]</ref> |