89 million Americans over 18 didn't vote.

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11. Right.

"The fallout and backlash from the war on poverty gave way to what Kaaryn Gustafson called the criminalization of poverty. As white middle-class Americans became more disgruntled about the “government handouts” that Black low-income communities were receiving, policymakers and legislators took action to respond to their concerns. This led to more substantial restrictions on welfare and the policing of recipients of government assistance. The resentment that middle-class Americans harbored against communities on welfare translated into anti-welfare fraud policies that disproportionately targeted low-income Black communities and failed at responding to the most egregious forms of fraudzation of poverty."
-- Joseph A. Califano, Washington Monthly, October 1999

There were advantages to the Democratic Party doing outreach in low-income, low-voting neighborhoods.