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Racist had a dissimilar impact on black-American citizens in America for over 250+ years!
That dissimilar experience certainly explains Black people’s dissimilar voting patterns.
That dissimilar experience certainly explains Black people’s dissimilar voting patterns.
Professor Angela K. Lewis’s book on Black Conservatism goes into great detail on this very subject. And she’s very fair about it. 
This is the problem...
A lot of white-conservatives wanna say that Blacks left Republican Party to vote Democrat because of food stamps & welfare’s “goodies”.
That’s a lie.
A lot of white-conservatives wanna say that Blacks left Republican Party to vote Democrat because of food stamps & welfare’s “goodies”.
That’s a lie.
Why? Because Blacks were leaving the Republican Party BEFORE The New Deal, due to indifference and racism from The Lily White Movement.
And, by the time of Johnson’s great society, they were already overwhelmingly Democrats.
And, by the time of Johnson’s great society, they were already overwhelmingly Democrats.
