[Enterprise]

This jumps out:

The data show that blacks did not switch from the Republicans to the Democrats in the 1960s. They did not do it because of civil rights. Rather, a majority of blacks became Democrats in the 1930s. This was at a time when the Democratic Party was manifestly the party of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. FDR, who got less than one-third of the black vote in 1932, got 75 percent of the black vote in 1936.

Why would blacks leave the party of emancipation and resistance to segregation and lynching and join the party of bigotry and white supremacy? The depressing answer is that blacks did it in exchange for the crumbs that they got from FDR’s New Deal. We have seen earlier how FDR designed the New Deal to exclude African-Americans and preserve Jim Crow. How delighted and amused FDR must have been to see blacks coming over to his camp even as his administration worked closely with racist Democrats to screw them over.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The pushback/reaction to that assertion will be epic; assuming Blacksor libs pay any attention to Dinesh, which they probably don’t. Fortunately I will be well out of range, not giving much of a crap as I do.

[Boomer]

Human nature is really predictable I guess. A promise of free ice cream for a vote really does work.

The voter gets his free ice cream and is happy until he sees the result of what he voted for. So why then does that same voter continue to vote for the free ice cream candidate election after election even though he knows he’s getting screwed in the long run? It’s the most expensive free ice cream in the world! It’s plantation ice cream but for one time it’s free.

Free ice cream.

(I wonder how many people reading this head to the freezer now for some ice cream)

[SauronOfMordor]

It follows that Republicans are not going to woo away people from the Democrats, who are primarily there for the goodies.

[yarddog]

I am not sure why so many Blacks switched to the Democratic party. I do think it had something to do with FDR tho.

A large number used to be named Roosevelt and I don’t think they were named after TR.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Does’t surprise me at all for blacks to go over like all others did due to “promising freebies” as FDR did en masse.

[Chode]

like children getting into a van

[stylin19a]

"Historian Ira Katznelson points out that median black family income was around $500 a month, which means most blacks lived at subsistence level without electricity, hot water, refrigeration, adequate plumbing or gas for cooking. “Under these circumstances,” Katznelson writes, New Deal benefits “limited though they were” and “however discriminatory” still offered some relief and solace to a “desperate population.”

Huh ? Median black family made 500 bucks a month - 6 grand a year - in the throes of the depression ?
The average salary in 1936 was 1700 bucks a year.
I made $1.50 an hour in 1967.

[txrefugee]

D’Souza is wrong about Republican support for the Civil Rights Act and the Voter Rights Act of 1965: 79% of Democrats voted for it, and 82% of Republicans voted for it. There were more Democrats because they were the ruling party for 40 years, but the minority Republicans did strongly support these bills.

[BwanaNdege]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”

The United States is a Republic.

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

[Albion Wilde]

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