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 - Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips
Should the term "Democrat Party" be abolished?
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Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions ... by the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong - Ken Mehlman, Bush's campaign manager and Chairman of the RNC
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"The citizens of the racist southern confederate states were the defenders of slavery, and the slave-owning mentality continues to shape the policies of racist southern confederate state leaders today. The point isn’t that the people of the racist southern confederate states invented slavery which is an ancient institution that far predates America. Rather, racist southern confederate state leaders like Senator John C. Calhoun of the southern confederate state of South Carolina invented a new justification for slavery, slavery as a “positive good.” For the first time in history, racist southern confederate state leaders insisted that slavery wasn’t just beneficial for masters; they said it was also good for the slaves.
Today progressive pundits state the facts about slavery and the racist people of “The South.” These people state the facts that the slavery battle was one between the anti-slavery North and the pro-slavery South which today vote republican due to the republican party's southern strategy and the northern states voting for the civil rights act.This of course benefits Democrats today,because its the truth.
The slavery battle was mainly a North-South issue because the confederate south is and has always been the most racist part of the country.It was the confederate states who fought a war against the united states to keep human beings as slaves.The confederate south is where the KKK was started and was most violent.The confederate south was home to jim crow,segregation,the most violence against black people ,anti civil rights etc and today they are represented by the republican party.
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My guess is that if the county is half divided, Left and Right, that the same amount of racism exists on each side -- and my second guess is that that percentage is rather small. But I could be wrong. (BTW why don't you add the Grammarly add-on to your browser)
I think you would be wrong.The side that has the confederate states would have the most racism,as it always has.
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I guess, you think. Ok, show me recent, factual, and verifiable proof.
Look who voted for The Nazi in Chief Trump.
Looks a lot like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Southern strategy
In American politics, the southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the Civil Rights Movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened pre-existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South to the Republican Party that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party.[4] It also helped push the Republican Party much more to the right.[4]
I figured you would too 'busy' to find an unbiased study. Here it is for your edification. If this country was really as racist as your biased mind leads you to think, Obama would have never been president.Look who voted for The Nazi in Chief Trump.
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Looks a lot like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Southern strategy
In American politics, the southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the Civil Rights Movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened pre-existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South to the Republican Party that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party.[4] It also helped push the Republican Party much more to the right.[4]
Racism by Political Party
by Alex Tabarrok on August 19, 2012 at 7:30 am in Current Affairs, Data Source, Television | Permalink
It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other.
Chris Hayes, Up w/ Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012.
Here is data asking whites the question Do you Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage (this is from 2002, the latest year available for this question).
Here is data asking whites whether they agree with the sentiment that Blacks Shouldn’t be Pushy.
Finally from 2008 here is data asking whites whether they would vote for a black for President. (Row: racpres, column partyid, filter: race(1) year(2008)).
It is true that there are more differences across party lines on policy questions such as on affirmative action, again with a mix in both parties but with more Republicans than Democrats opposing. I don’t consider these types of policy preferences to be grounds for calling someone a racist, however.
It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/racism-by-political-party.html
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In 1999,southern confederate state Alabama still had laws against interracial marriage and 36 % opposed or were unsure about repealing it
http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/12/interracial.marriage/
Alabama considers lifting interracial marriage ban
March 12, 1999
Web posted at: 1:32 p.m. EST (1832 GMT)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- The Alabama House of Representatives is set to vote on a controversial bill that would repeal a ban on interracial marriages.
Last year, a similar measure died in a legislative committee. But on Wednesday, a House panel voted to send the proposed constitutional amendment to the full House for consideration.
Alabama is the last state in the union to have such a law on its books. Although the state stopped enforcing it decades ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled such laws unconstitutional, the fact that it has not been officially repealed remains a sore point for many in Alabama.
"These kinds of things represent oppression and slavery and discrimination against black people," said Rep. Alvin Holmes, who introduced the bill to the legislature.
Major Cox, who is black, and his wife, Margaret, who is white, would also like to see the law repealed, although they have been married for 18 years.
"Taking it off (the books) will be a recognition of the progress that the state is making," she said.
If the bill is approved by the House and Senate, it will clear the way for a statewide vote.
A measure intended to repeal Alabama's ban on interracial marriage died in committee last year
A recent poll in Alabama indicated high support for the bill. About 63 percent of those who responded to the poll favored lifting the ban on interracial marriage while 26 percent were opposed. Ten percent said they were not sure or had no reply.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/mississippi-republicans/349433/
Poll: 46 Percent of Mississippi GOP Want to Ban Interracial Marriage
Also, those folks are pretty keen on Sarah Palin
So the liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling outfit posed a revealing question to Mississippi Republicans in their latest survey: "Do you think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?"
Shockingly, 46 percent of the state's GOP voters replied "illegal." 14 percent bizarrely responded "not sure." That means about 60 percent of these Southern Republicans are hearkening back to a time--1958 to be exact--when the American mainstream overwhelmingly looked down on people with different shades of skin getting married.
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