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The GOP continued to receive a considerable number of black votes until the watershed election of 1964. The National Democratic Party embraced Civil Rights, over the fierce objections of southerners who moved from their affiliation with the Democrats (which had been tenuous since Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat movement of 1948) to a full embrace of the “Barry Goldwater” Republican Party. From that point on, overt appeals to white racism were part of the Republican playbook. Google Lee Atwater.
It remains true to this day.
LOL when the democrat party openly embraced racism, segregation, Jim Crow, etc., black voters still overwhelmingly backed them (at least from the New Deal on). What gives?
LOL when the democrat party openly embraced racism, segregation, Jim Crow, etc., black voters still overwhelmingly backed them (at least from the New Deal on). What gives?
Blacks overwhelming supported Republicans after the civil war.
LOL when the democrat party openly embraced racism, segregation, Jim Crow, etc., black voters still overwhelmingly backed them (at least from the New Deal on). What gives?
A majority of black voters shifted to the Democrats with FDR, but the black vote didn’t crater for the GOP until the 1960’s when the National Democratic Party supported civil Rights, while the Presidential nominee of the GOP opposed the Civil Rights Act and overt racists like Strom Thurmond left the Democrats for the Republican Party.
That’s when you started getting black margins for Democrats of better than 10-1. You can’t expect for the black vote to substantially change until the Republicans find that appeals to white racism no longer win elections, which will eventually happen.
Imagine saying blatantly racist stuff like this and wondering why black people think you and your party are racist.
Thank you. I will go ahead and say what I think on this topic. The statement that you replied to tells me there is a resentment towards Blacks for not voting Republican. I don't think this is about having concern for Black people. I believe it is about "Blacks should vote Republican or stay home. We are sick of having candidates that we don't want, and Blacks are to blame for it".
Until the GOP stops embracing White supremacists, this will never change.
Actions have consequences.
Liberals of all colors embracing Marxism or Socialism won't give anyone in the GOP a reasonable alternative.
Assuming that the GOP was embracing White Supremacy which it is not.
There is no logical reason for anyone to step aside and let another take power based on skin color. Yet, when all the verbal blather has ended, that is the desire of liberals. Like Hillary they think it is their turn and they want their turn to last for eternity.
A majority of black voters shifted to the Democrats with FDR, but the black vote didn’t crater for the GOP until the 1960’s when the National Democratic Party supported civil Rights, while the Presidential nominee of the GOP opposed the Civil Rights Act and overt racists like Strom Thurmond left the Democrats for the Republican Party.
That’s when you started getting black margins for Democrats of better than 10-1. You can’t expect for the black vote to substantially change until the Republicans find that appeals to white racism no longer win elections, which will eventually happen.
I'm not buying that every republican presidential candidate since the civil rights act has been racist.
There is more to it than that.
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