The recent votes in the House of Representatives to block reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act and in the Senate to reject an increase in the minimum wage, give powerful voice to the reason why Blacks respond by saying no to Republican candidates.
In this case, we see clearly the politics of the economic and social wings of the party at play.
The current Republican Party was created in the Nixon landslide of 1972 when a substantial portion of the South joined it, adding to its growing economic conservatism a group that was deeply conservative on social values. In combined form, it constituted a political rejection of the government's values and spending at that time …
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