[rmichaelj]

Hold on, if that top chart is accurate, then blacks were jumping from the Republican party to the Democrat party in droves WHILE the Democrat party was fighting tooth and nail to keep segregation in the south?!?! I thought the jump came after the civil rights era died down.

I see it, I just don’t understand it. Some kind of Stockholm Syndrome?

[presidio9]

Sadly, the graph also leaves out 2008, when 95% of all blacks in this country voted for one candidate -this approaches the numbers of southern voters who voted against Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election (they had 3 choices).

By comparison, only about 75% of Catholics voted for JFK.

Regardless of who the Republican candidate is, less than 60% of women will vote for Hillary Clinton.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Hold on, if that top chart is accurate, then blacks were jumping from the Republican party to the Democrat party in droves WHILE the Democrat party was fighting tooth and nail to keep segregation in the south?!?! I thought the jump came after the civil rights era died down.

The northern segment of the Democratic Party came out in favor of civil rights in 1948, at the convention which nominated Harry Truman (leading Strom Thurmond to bold the Democratic Party). The southern Democrats fought the civil rights movement well into the 1960s.

[Secret Agent Man]

abortion sold under various feminist arguments, independence, dads disposable, career good, mother bad, wait awhile, have fun before burden of kids, men suck, don’t have defect babies, it is just’birth control, too many kids not spaced far enough apart, etc.

[immadashell]

Segregation wasn’t the issue. Easy welfare was the issue. Tracks very closely to the rise in single parent households also.