That isn’t the case jveritas, Republicans used to receive the majority of the Black Vote until Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
GWB got 45% of the Hispanic Vote in 04 as well.
But there is little chance minorities would peel away from Obama for a candidate like McCain, if there was ever an “old white guy” McCain was it.
School vouchers, opportunity, and being pro small business and pointing out that Abortion amounts to genocide in minority communities is the path to making Conservatism at least on par with Liberalism.
And the best part is, those issues do not require the abandonment of solid Principles.
Nixon abandoned many conservative values in his quest for power.
Republicans used to receive the majority of the Black Vote until Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
That dates the change to 1968, but Kennedy and Johnson won the majority of the black vote, too. I think the change really goes back to FDR.
That isn’t the case jveritas, Republicans used to receive the majority of the Black Vote until Nixon’s Southern Strategy.”
That isn’t accurate at all, in 1964 republicans got 6% of the black vote.
“After leaning Republican following the Civil War, blacks first swung to the Democrats with the advent of the New Deal. However, Eisenhower got 39 percent of the vote in 1956. Richard Nixon received 32 percent of the black vote in 1960. The Republican share of the black vote in 1964? Six percent. A Republican presidential candidate hasn’t gotten above 15 percent since then. What happened in the short four years between 1960 and 1964? Well, in short, two names — Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1960, King refrained from endorsing anyone for president. King had a gut reaction that John F. Kennedy was marginally better on civil rights; Kennedy had called King’s wife Coretta while King languished in a Georgia jail. Meanwhile, Bobby Kennedy worked on the judge to allow King to post a bond. Nonetheless, King felt it better for the cause to stay neutral. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr., originally endorsed Nixon, but switched to Kennedy after his son was released from jail two weeks before the election.
King’s neutrality changed dramatically by 1964. King declared that though Barry Goldwater was not racist, his positions gave aid and comfort to racists:
I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.
Roosevelt turned the Black vote in the Depression and the northern urban 'rat machines absorbed the great northward black migration beginning in the '20s while the repubican organizations showed lukewarm interest.
By 1948 Harry Truman was to win with 70% of the Black vote.
Eisenower was not much focussed on racial politics although he did good works, as in Little Rock, and the 'rat-ward migration of Blacks continued.
Nixon's strategy was far more an acknowledgement of reality than a strategy at all, as demonstrated by the fact that he lost most of the South to George Wallace in 1968.