Posted on 06/17/2023 4:38:25 AM PDT by Phoenix8
“… in 1966, a political revolution emerged in America that would have a massive impact on millions of families and marriages. The man behind it was President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who reached the White House amid a national tragedy but grabbed the reins of power quickly and purposefully, bent on transforming the country. Though he is lionized in popular culture these days, it is worth asking whether the celebratory tone accurately reflects the results of his revolution, at least in terms of his massive Great Society.”
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“Johnson incorporated Moynihan’s study into a speech at Washington’s Howard University that suggested that poor black families should be given a guaranteed, government-provided income. Johnson and his policy team believed that expanding government funding for broken families would help save them. Instead, it incentivized single mothers to remain unmarried. By expanding welfare state programs to Americans who were already experiencing serious stress and hardship, it deepened the problems of illegitimacy, fatherless homes, and other cultural problems. Millions of Americans soon were engulfed in permanent chaos and dysfunction. A plague of fatherlessness ensued, with nearly 72 percent of all American black children being born to single mothers by 2015.”
It’s an issue of poor or no education. Whitey invented everything out of the spirit of Christianity. Systemic is simple mind ignorant thinking.
Thinking like that will always keep them African.
Great chart; thanks.
I see that by 2020 the gently ascending level of A-A voting for GOP (Trump) equalled the level of Clinton’s second term (i.e. “the first black president”); and twice as high as LBJ’s 1964 election (no wonder LBJ made that disgraceful remark)—which was the second-lowest GOP participation of all, with Zero‘s second term the lowest. This, after the sustained media lies that Trump is racist.
2020 might have been higher if not for all the “harvested” ballots—LOL!
You are seeing that 2020 and 2016 were not unusual for the black GOP vote.
Agreed; but it was still a slight upward trend, even after the Obama presidency. And, as noted, after a vociferous campaign of lies about racism.
I know what you were saying, you and I have discussed this before, I believe. Mainly because so many Northern Blacks were enfranchised saw such a dramatic turn with FDR’s reelection. Southern Blacks, even those that could not vote, took another 3 decades to catch up with their Northern brethren on leaving the GOP. Had they been fully enfranchised in both regions, it’s quite possible the South alone could’ve kept the overall Black vote majority GOP for President until 1964.
Alas, it was the massive polarization with Goldwater, who ironically WAS pro-Civil Rights, but against the CRA because it was too much a government-mandated overreach, and not helped by MLK, Jr. denouncing him as a “tool of Southern racists” (which, of course, he wasn’t). Even with Nixon, who got 1/3rd of the (not yet fully enfranchised) Black vote in 1960, he struggled to get over 10% or so just 12 years later (and despite the prominent support of Sammy Davis, Jr), the number the GOP has been stuck at for 60 straight years since. Even more remarkable the Black vote going for the racist candidate Carter in 1976, just 6 short years after he ran an openly race-baiting campaign for Governor (with Ford still only getting somewhere around 15% of the Black vote, which I believe was either tied with or slightly better than Trump’s performance in 2020), showing just how thoroughly radicalized and polarized the Black vote was, and sadly still is today.
Yeah. Always looks good to be a ‘’war hero’’ when running for office. LBJ was a dirt bag through and through.
Texas Democrats at the time were more conservative than Northeastern Republicans.
I have made that argument about how California is different than Texas and how Texas was Democrat yet has been holding out better against the left versus Cal. which was Republican but was conquered fairly easily by the left.
Texas was Democrat but social conservative, and California was Republican but social liberal, Texas was more organically conservative with a deeper, more in-the-blood natural conservatism.
Kennedy’s fateful trip to Texas was with the intention of mending the rift between the conservative and liberal wings of the Texas Democratic Party.
And look at all the positive comments under that video !!!
Like some one else here said and I agree Johnson couldn’t have gotten away without so many stupid people voting for him.
The comments were funnier than the video... I was crying laughing! I had not read them before — thanks for the tip!
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