Like I said, it's GUT CHECK time. If conservatives who claim they're "principled" truly are, then they most certainly wouldn't have any fear of taking the conservative message directly to black voters. Right?
The whole generalizing on skin-color thing only makes the tiniest amount of sense because most people (ooops, there goes Southack generalizing) associate "Black" with inner-city. It's worthy of its own thread, but rural Blacks aren't your typical inner-city thinker. OK, I'm off of that tangent.
Now, I'll go back to the generic assumptions about inner-city residents' politics.
1. They are pro-life. Find any active inner-city church, and you've got yourself a pro-life, conservative crowd. Up until a few years ago, even radical left-wing Jesse Jackson would go into tyrades against abortion.
2. They are pro-vouchers. No one knows the sorry state of inner-city public schools better than inner-city residents, and they want a choice rather than be mandated to one failing school.
3. They are pro-military. There is no surer, more equal, career opportunity for those who don't have a college education and a rich daddy to go work for, than the U.S. military.
4. Lack of support for the radical gay agenda.
5. Lack of support for the radical enviro-NAZI agenda.
Now, if you want to segue away from the inner-city out to the Black Belt in rural Alabama, you'll also find overwhelming support for gun rights and free trade (American farmers need foreign shores to be opened up to our produce).
Take Conservative issues directly to Blacks?
Absolutely.