Quote Originally Posted by EastsideAl View Post
Hahaha. What a stupid straw man question from Mr. Thompson, who somehow doesn't even discuss the real issues involved.

A significant portion of the Republican party has done almost everything in their power to chase blacks [[and women, and hispanics, and gays, and really anybody who isn't a Christian white male) away from their party for decades. They took over the old segregationist wing from the Democrats after the Civil Rights Act and have pandered to them for as long as they could help them keep their hold on the "solid south".

So, for instance, the discussion of the Confederate flag controversy in that article comes off as totally clueless by conveniently omitting the fact that it was Republican governors and legislators who most vehemently supported flying that flag [[and often went out of their way to demonize those who opposed it) until public opinion tuned so conclusively against it in the last few months. The same elements in the party have worked to gut the Voting Rights Act and to gin up a BS fear campaign over non-existent "voter fraud" by minorities in order to try to limit the franchise as much as possible. I really see little or no reason for any black citizen to support, or even trust, a party that has so consistently acted like this.
Indeed; when the Party of Lincoln became the Party of the Confederacy, they sort of gave up much of a reason for blacks to join.