It's easy to believe that this officer holds that opinion. What's remarkable is that she made a public announcement about it. This shows there is loyalty to the truth and to another (white) officer who apparently has every one’s respect.
“Many of the blacks were more conservative than me...”
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So did they just TALK conservative, or can we assume they VOTED for Ronald Reagan and both Bushes, as well as conservative local and state candidates? The issue here is voting.
If they did indeed VOTE conservative, than they are among a tiny minority of their race who did so.