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It isn't just Lincoln. Blacks were Republican for about a hundred years, 1865-1965. They have been democrats for close to fifty years. If we chart black progress from an population of illiterate, poor former slaves to today, during which of those two periods did most of the progress occur? Blacks had their highest literacy rates before 1965. Same with marriage rates. Up until 1965, much because of Jim Crow, and segregation, they were accomplished entrepreneurs. They weren't allowed in white hotels, so they built their own. They built their own schools and colleges, even sports leagues.

Then comes 1965, Martin Luther King's switch to democrat, and the great society. The welfare programs encouraged out of wedlock births, single parenting, welfare dependence. Democrat unions destroyed inner city schools. The democrat boomer drug culture takes over. They give up entrepreneurism and settle for working for others or the government. And it is all downhill until we have kids being shot and whole neighborhoods of young mothers with "baby daddies" instead of fathers.