[Prokopton]

Have you ever wondered why Irish Catholics, who should be voting conservative Republican now, still vote Democrat like their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers did?

That must be the reason blacks are almost all Democrats because Lincoln, the Republican, set them free and the Democrats controlled the racist south that hung them from trees. Is that it?

[Polybius]

Have you ever wondered why Irish Catholics, who should be voting conservative Republican now, still vote Democrat like their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers did? ..... Polybius

That must be the reason blacks are almost all Democrats because Lincoln, the Republican, set them free and the Democrats controlled the racist south that hung them from trees. Is that it? ....... Prokopton

Actually, up until the late 1940's, many blacks DID vote Republican. Martin Luther King was a Republican.

Once the old "Dixiecrats" became Republicans, blacks flocked to the Democrat Party.