“Now that would be a surprise. They need to toss off the shackles of the socialist plantation.”
This is one of the things the GOP can never, ever seem to capitalize on. Many blacks, and Latins for that matter, are SOCIAL conservative. They are not fiscal conservatives for various reasons, and appeals to them are usually made on self interested fiscal grounds.
This number really does not surprise me, although I would have thought the support would be a little less around 1:4 rather than 1:3.
Exactly!
I'm going to get pounded for this, but social conservatism needs to break free of fiscal conservatism. I'm not saying fiscal conservatism is bad (though I'm definitely much more a social than a fiscal conservative myself), but nowadays everyone has come to accept that social conservatism cannot be had without taking fiscal conservatism along with it. In the old days, even fiscal liberals were social conservatives. I would gladly return to those days.
Unfortunately, Blacks and Hispanics have sold out to social liberals. They have not utilized their tremendous influence to bring liberalism and the Democrat party to moral sanity. In fact, almost all mainstream Black and Hispanic politicians march in lockstep with the moral nihilists.
I for one am sick and tired of hearing the excuse that poor people cannot afford to vote for social conservatives because of they need government assistance. This is a false dichotomy. All decent people, whether fiscal liberals or fiscal conservatives, should be social/moral conservatives.