re: #45 Dark_Falcon

In 1960, Nixon actually won about a third of the votes cast by black Americans. But after he inaugurated the “Southern Strategy” in 1968, that number fell to 10%.

And after Reagan kicked off his campaign with a states’ rights speech in Philadelphia MS, Republican share of the black vote fell to single digits where it’s remained ever since.

A few years ago (shortly after Katrina) there was a poll that Bush had 2% approval rating among black voters… in a poll with a 4% margin of error. Somebody wrote “that makes it mathematically possible that more blacks than are alive today disapprove of Bush. Black ghosts are returning for the express purpose of disapproving of George Bush. The sonogram results are ‘we don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, but it disapproves of George Bush.’”