Then you have to discounts Parker's assertion that there ARE conservative blacks in Mississippi that are receptive to positive outreach. It's Monday morning quarterbacking, but relevant for future reference.
There are lots of black conservatives, a lot of blacks are against abortion, but they still vote DEMOCRAT. That’s the bottom line. I have personal experience in this. When I lived back east in a sewer, the rats would go to all the black churches at election time and tell them they same tired crap they told them the last time. They lap it up and nothing ever changes and they keep voting DEMOCRAT. You can’t fix STUPID!
There are conservative blacks anywhere, and I agree with you that the GOP should make more of an attempt to reach them. I was working the phones in the first Bush campaign when I got a call from a black man (who literally said he was calling where nobody could hear him because his family would jump all over him if they heard) asking us to come and put up door hangers in his neighborhood or hand out flyers. The response from the person in charge was a shrug, and then she said it would be a waste of brochures. So there’s definitely a problem.
However, the “outreach” that Cochran did was offering Federal freebies to a population that clearly thinks it’s incapable of doing anything for itself and that all good things come from the Federal government. Politicians have always offered pork - getting a construction project or some other project for their districts in order to provide jobs, for example - but the Dem/GOP-e approach to blacks is now the equivalent of offering fistfuls of cash to individuals: in other words, bribery.
It’s hard to compete with this, and furthermore, McDaniel would not have had the time to cultivate and build a conservative black voting bloc even if it were possible.