We better prepare to run against Ben Carson in 2016

[merrily]

11. Some of them are damned obstinate, if not downright proud,

of their racism, only they deny its racism. At least, they deny it in public.

But, you bet, they want the African American vote. For one thing, as a general proposition, it's a loyal vote.

From Lincoln to JFK, it was Republican because of Emancipation though there had been some switching because of both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Truman's integration of the military. Then, MLK Sr promised to switch if JFK got MLK Jr out of jail. And the vote has, for the most part, been Democratic ever since.

Too bad for Republicans that the states that loved Jim Crow laws, opposed Truman's integration of the military, opposed the the Civil Rights efforts of King and the other Civil Rights leaders and the efforts of the Kennedy's and passage of the Civil Rights Act are now red states for the most part. Connect the dots.

Ethnics, other than Hispanics, have not been that loyal by far. They were once a solidly Democratic group, too, looked down on by WASP Republicans. However, many of them or their kids or grandkids switched on acquiring the degree of financial success that leftist policies enabled them to get.