he turth is, african americans have been overlehmly democratic since 1945 and even more so with the voting rigths act of 1965 was passed /lbj election who was the champion of civil rights form a presdential point of view
i don't like to talk politics because frankly just about everyone here is ignorant, but i will drop some knowledge on you guys. the 1960 election with nixon/jfk was the closet in history, with JFK winning by a little bit over 100k votes, African Americans voted 85% in favor of JFK and that is even without southern states allowing African Americans to vote, in short, blacks won election for JFK
my point being that even if i gave you that black people won the 2012 election, it wouldn't be the first time in history this has happened.
the GOP's problem is on many fronts. The Voting rights act that was passed in 1965, increased the amount of voting African Americans by a considerable in a span of 22 years in combination with just urban development/groth/birth rates
In alabama 1965 there 19 thousand black registered voters. by 1988 there were 68 thousand. in the same state, in 1965 there were 70 thousand white voters and in 1988 there were 75 thousand
Georgia 1965
white= 62k black=27k
Georgia 1988
white= 63k black 56k
Louisiana 1965
white= 80k black=31k
Louisiana 1988
white= 75k black= 77k
mississippi 1965
white= 69k black= 6k lol
mississippi 1988
white=80k black= 74k
etc
just so you don't think I'm pulling these numbers out of the crack of my ass
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...er/numbers.png
African Americans have been in the democratic bloc for damn near a century. The problem isn't the racial divide.
The REAL GOP problem, now that i have broke down the above, is quite simple... the game plan that worked in the 60's and 70's, is not political fiesable in 2012... there are too many black/Hispanic voters. In the 60's and 70's and even into the 80's you could win a presidential election off pretty much the conservative white vote. you didn't have to cater to anyone else beucase the numbers that everyone else had didn't matter.. white couples were the predominant voting power of america and if you made them happy, you pretty much were gonna win
The problem is not one but a few, and the GOP has not done anything to offset this. The new aforementioned black vote, the GOP never bothered catering to, so they stuck wtih party lines. That really isn't even the biggest deal. The worst decision in GOP history IMHO is to tell immigrants to **** off. That was the beginning of the end.
and ****, i don't have to tell you dudes this, this is ****ing sosuave, people aren't' getting married as much today. id don't have to feed you any bull**** either on why they aren't getting married you guys know. and the ones that do, are doing so much later. So not only are you not getting the black vote, not only are you not getting the Hispanic vote, you are also not getting AS many white voters beucse you are still using the 1980 conversvale value formula that worked so well then, in a 2012 hipster chick look at me i am a slut bucket on facebook let's see how many men i can **** before i'm 30 and then find a guy to take care of my ass when i'm used up dating scene.. you're gonna lose some of these guys and girls. not even to mention the new gay movement.
in laymen's terms, the GOP probelm is that in 1982, it was poltiically fiesable if not prudent to ignore just about everyone but conservative american vote, because there weren't enough of anyone else that were registered voters that mattered. In 2012, it's not politically fiesable to ignore everyone else but conservative votes, and that's exactly what they are doing. the plan simply won't work. no matter how you slice it no matter how high your fox news ratings are, there are too many minorites and single people to not cater to any of them.
it's not one thing. The GOP is really, really ****ed. not beucase of black people. beucase it hasn't done anything to change anything since well.. ever.
There are good republican candidates who from time to time can sway a block of minority voters, but the GOP really needs to change the game plan to account for the new playing field or this **** will continue.