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Back when the south was really racist it was solidly Democrat.
It was Democrat mayors and governors that were using the fire hoses and locking black kids out of schools.
Jim Crow laws were passed by Democrats to keep blacks from voting...Why did they not want them to vote...
Republicans...party of Lincoln...
Blacks didn’t start voting Democrat until after Johnsons Great Society.
Commence re-hash of the entire civil war in three, two one ...
Did Mr. Dawson bother to point out that those states are only recently 'red states', and that they were 'blue states' before that (in most cases going back to pre-Civil War days)? No, I bet he didn't.
Uh ok . . .so tell us what the correlation is between crime, illegitimacy, drug abuse, the welfare state et al statistics and black residency. After all, if we are going to compare negative things to where people live, then we at least ought to be fair and balanced, shouldn’t we?
The red state-blue state map is not informative unless you look at the red county/blue county map, Then it becomes obvious that it is a cultural gap between the big cities vs the smaller cities and rural areas of the country.
“And in 2000, the final vote to remove a ban on interracial marriage from our state constitution – a ban which had been rendered null and void by the U.S. Supreme Court 33 years before – broke down to a shamefully close 60 percent to 40 percent.”
—If that’s true that IS shameful. The vote should have broken down 100 to 0 in favor of removing the ban.