RT [@JohnJHarwood](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1512179173338529804) when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed in 1967 to become the first black man on the Supreme Court, 16 of 22 senators from the 11 states of the old Confederacy voted no or didn’t vote

when Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed today to become the first black woman, 18 of 22 voted no