My question, Greg F, is: With the Southern states' superior voting power resulting from the 3/5 rule and they thus being able to elect a disproportionate number of presidents, why would they have installed presidents with known 'Black' blood? As they used to say, Southern men don't care how close the Black man gets, as long as he doesn't get too high and Northern men don't care how high the Black man gets, as long as he doesn't get too close. So why would Southern men elevate a Black man?