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In reply to the discussion: Just for the record, I want to get this off my chest. [View all]NAO
(3,425 posts)LBJ knew he was going to lose the south for Dems, but he did what was right.
Radical repubs (they didn't have the tea party back then, but they had the exact same 'tea party types') HATED Eisenhower because he sent troops in to overcome the "massive resistance" to desegregation in Little Rock.
I think part of the reason for the black vote going mostly to Democrats is not even so much historical reasons or even any specific policies, but the fact that TODAY's Republican party has defined itself as the "White" party.
That's also why the Catholic demographic has traditionally been Democratic. Because the Republicans have been the white, EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT party. (tho' I don't know how much the "contraception mandate" is going to shift Catholics to the Republican side)