The more poverty dies within the African American community, the more there will be gains in the right...not necessarily the Gop. Their povery levels are going down, and will most likely meet white levels within a generation. They went from a 60% poverty rate (in the 60's) to a 20% poverty rate currently. Those are amazing numbers.
I hope for many more black conservatives, and I welcome them with open arms.
I work with a black guy who's the staunchest conservative Republican you'll ever meet. And in his own admission, he grew up poor, was a "thug" in high school and lived in the ghetto. Now, he's married, has 4 kids, makes $105,000 a year...and he said that in 2000, after voting for Gore and then seeing the aftermath during the recount, he started seeing what jokers that entire party was, he looked deeper, and also noticed that Jesse Jacka$$ and Al Sharpton were totally opposite of what MLK's entire legacy was. Now he's a staunch Republican, more conservative than I am even, and a Blackwell supporter, and the whole 9 yards.