Read the excerpt from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington.

I believe that in time, through the operation of intelligence and friendly race relations, all cheating at the ballot-box in the South will cease. It will become apparent that the white man who begins by cheating a Negro out of his ballot soon learns to cheat a white man out of his, and that the man who does this ends his career of dishonesty by the theft of property or by some equally serious crime. In my opinion, the time will come when the South will encourage all of its citizens to vote. It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half of the population has no share and no interest in the Government.

What is the author’s claim?

When large portions of the population cannot vote, it results in “political stagnation.”
By way of “intelligence and friendly race relations, all cheating at the ballot-box in the South will cease.”
The South will see that allowing everyone to vote “pays better, from every standpoint.”
People will see that someone who cheats people out of voting is a dishonest person who will “[end] his career of dishonesty by . . . serious crime.”

Respuesta :

According to the information in the fragment, it can be inferred that the author's claim is The South will see that allowing everyone to vote "pays better, from every standpoint."

What is the claim of a text?

The claim of a text refers to the most important sentence in which the central theme of the text is summarized. In general, the claim of a text refers to the central objective that the author has when writing that text and the message that he wants to convey.

According to the above, it can be inferred that the claim of the text is that everyone can vote in the Southern States because it is a fact that it will benefit everyone equally, taking into account the democratic system that the United States has.

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