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As was demonstrated in Richard White's seminal book, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" , (University if Oklahoma Press, 1991) the reason behind voting rights for women was the fear that the votes of the Chinese laborers; who had been imported to work in the mines, and on railway construction, might undermine the controlling interests of the landholding, white men. Their clever solution was to allow their wives and daughters to vote, thus maintaining their control.
The suggestion that a candidate who is anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-racial equality could possibly deserve anything except derision from feminists is bizarre.
