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Actually, it's republicans who take black people for fools, thus the rhetoric that we are "brainwashed" , "voting for handouts" or "on the Democrat [sic] Plantation".
Democrats merely take black people for *granted*. There's a difference.
Bull. Dims have been pimping and pandering to blacks since LBJ. All kinds of promises and nothing delivered.
Hmmm, according to your flawed assumptions of black american employment, the MAJORITY of 13% of the general population is taking up the MAJORITY of government assistance
I guess not knowing is part of the battle in republican speak
Many people are trying to determine the answer to this question. Some say it is for government handouts. Others quote increased opportunity. Which is it and why?
Why don't you stop a "black" on the street and ask?
But not in the same magnitude as they in the 1960s. Some more important questions would be this:
1) When did Blacks STOP voting for Republicans in sizable numbers?
2) Why do people think it had to do with "handouts"?
3) And why do so many people care who Blacks vote for?
But not in the same magnitude as they in the 1960s. Some more important questions would be this:
1) When did Blacks STOP voting for Republicans in sizable numbers?
2) Why do people think it had to do with "handouts"?
3) And why do so many people care who Blacks vote for?
According to Republicans, who create their own meanings for phrases, "handouts" are when a candidate proposes policies that make people's lies better. So, civil rights, which was championed by Johnson, would be considered a handout today.
Republicans lost favor with blacks when Nixon used the Southern Strategy. Pat Buchanon, then a Nixon aide said, "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."
According to Republicans, who create their own meanings for phrases, "handouts" are when a candidate proposes policies that make people's lies better. So, civil rights, which was championed by Johnson, would be considered a handout today.
Republicans lost favor with blacks when Nixon used the Southern Strategy. Pat Buchanon, then a Nixon aide said, "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."
You have the quote right, but it wasn't Pat Buchanan that said that. It was Kevin Phillips who said it.
Either way, you hit the nail on the hammer. When the Southern Strategy was used, that basically alienated Blacks. And Pat Buchanan is quite bigoted himself.
I don't think all Republicans think of some policies as handouts. However, I notice that some people refer to any kind of help from the government as "handouts", even if it isn't welfare.
Bull. Dims have been pimping and pandering to blacks since LBJ. All kinds of promises and nothing delivered.
The problem with your argument is that African Americans switched to the Democratic Party 40 years before Johnson became President.
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