To: MestaMachine; Clintonfatigued; SunkenCiv; fieldmarshaldj; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing; RedRover; ..
Just saw something interesting: the district that Tim Scott was nominated in (SC-1) has sent a Republican to Congress since 1980. So his chances in November appear to be good. BTW, Palin and Huckabee endorsed him a few days before yesterday's runoff. If elected, I believe he will be the first black Republican from a formerly Confederate state in the House since about 1900.
To: justiceseeker93
Yes, George White of NC (1897-1901) was the last Black Republican Congressmember from a Southern State. The Democrats implemented Jim Crow laws to drastically curtail Black participation in politics, otherwise Black Republicans would’ve been consistently elected to office from Reconstruction onwards.
9 posted on
06/23/2010 5:56:08 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Thanks justiceseeker93. Server’s still crawlin’, I’m going to bed.
10 posted on
06/23/2010 8:59:15 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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