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We need to ask a US Southern historian about this. Until we get a ruling from C. Vann
Woodward's successor, I still think the exemption went the other way, relatively late,
which is why the Supreme Court's first (so far as I know) Grandfather Clause case, 1915!,
went the way it did. The question, I suspect, is who started the talk about "grandfathered
in," i.e., whose "thought" was it originally. No expert on the history of suffrage, but a
born and bred Oklahoman, I always heard it was certain favored or lucky Afro-American men,
especially if they had Indian head rights to trade, whose claim to being "grandfathered,"
like any white man's claim, won acceptance, and they explained it to others as being
"grandfathered in." And in short order, like lots of black slang, it entered white lingo.
But all this may simply be another instance of independent evolution.
 
Anyway I certainly agree it has nothing to do with a formalized he, until Law and
Economics.
 
John Womack  
 
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