Election 2010 surprise: rise of black Republicans

Christian Science Monitor ^ | Sep 08, 2010 | Allen C. Guelzo

[george76]

Overall, the GOP has fielded more than 30 African-American candidates for federal office, including Ryan Frazier in Colorado's Seventh Congressional District and Vernon Parker in Arizona's Third Congressional District.

And as the economy loses steam, and President Obama's poll numbers sag, the ultimate humiliation in this summer of Democratic discontent is to find Republicans trumpeting 2010 as "The Year of the Black Republicans."

A trend with historic rootsThis trend defies modern identity politics. In the 2008 election, 95 percent of black voters chose Obama. Yet the attraction between blacks and the Republican Party is not so strange as it seems.

For a century after emancipation in 1863, black voters routinely lined up behind the Republican Party as the party of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

[george76]

Frazier Pulls Even In New CO-7 Poll.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/08/perlmutter-frazier-poll-colora.html

[boycott]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

[DesertRhino]

This is nothing but good for us, for conservatives, and for our country and culture. It needs to be encouraged.

[Paleo Conservative]

. In the 1930s, as New Deal Democrats began cultivating African-Americans, the Republican hold on African-American voters began to fracture.

Trying to get them onto the DemocRATS' plantation.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not only was the Republican Party the party of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, the Democrat Party was the party of the Ku Klux Klan, horrible murder and lynchings, and resistance to civil rights for 100 years. It’s about time that liberty-loving black people come back to the Republican Party.

[Windflier]

If I could find my way home to the Republican party, any other black person can. I see the era of Obama as a time that many, many more will do so.

[dalebert]

ping

[george76]

I like your oath picture...

http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu202/Windflier/VRWC/tnrightwing-extremist-oath.jpg

[moodyskeptic]

Welcome to sanity Black Republicans. You’re welcome here as long as you respect the Constitution. We would LOVE to see you share fully in the conservative resurgence. And I, for one, hope you find much personal success and fulfillment.

[ansel12]

In the 1930s, as New Deal Democrats began cultivating African-Americans, the Republican hold on African-American voters began to fracture.

Good article and good news, but this little bit of mythology bugs me.

The black switch from Republican to Democrat was instant and permanent, FDR got 23% of the black vote in 1932 which was typical (blacks always voted GOP), and then suddenly won 71% in 1936, and it stayed that way from then on until today, creeping up a little more in the 1960s.

There is something about what changed from 1932 to 1936 that no one wants to discuss, and that is why they keep repeating this mythology about civil rights and the 1960s being when the black vote changed.

[Mad Dawgg]

I was told that by voting for a black Republican (I voted for Keyes when he ran for President in the Primary) I was the worst form of racist because I voted for an "Uncle Tom"...

I was told this by a Professor from a nearby college. It must be true because he has a PHD.

[liberty or death]

I like that. “Home”. All Americans no matter their heritage are in the greatest country God ever created.

[ansel12]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Just winning a consistent 35% of the black vote would change politics, and it would sure be less disturbing than this 90% Democrat stuff.

[Mad Dawgg]

"There is something about what changed from 1932 to 1936 that no one wants to discuss...

What actually happened then? (Because I've never read about it that I can remember and would like to know and research it.)

[Windflier]

All Americans no matter their heritage are in the greatest country God ever created.

Liberals don't understand that simple truth, or they don't want to acknowledge it. Frankly, I believe that it's more the latter, than the former.

If liberals had the courage of their convictions, they'd all move to Socialist paradises like Cuba, Venezuela, or any African country, but they don't. That puts the lie to all of their denigration of America.

[Frantzie]

LOL! Yeah PhD’s are always right about everything. Like that climate GW hockey stick guy (fraud). ;-)

[liberty or death]

Well I’ll pay for 10 one way tickets for Obama on down. They must agree to never return.

[ansel12]

I don’t know what the Democrats promised blacks for the 1936 election that totally and permanently reversed their entire voting history, how do you reach such a large racial group in such a manner, and so effectively, and reaching them all simultaneously?

I keep meaning to delve into it and see what I can put together, I will do that at some point.

In the meantime, people should be aware of it, it is the biggest voting block story in our history and no one even knows it happened.

[Salvation]

**Republicans trumpeting 2010 as “The Year of the Black Republicans.”**

I like the ring of that!