re: #51 sagehen

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.’”

It’s that very speech in Mississippi why I will never admire Reagan. Yes, as someone whose family suffered under Communism, I am glad he had a role in the eventual fall of hte USSR but I will never respect him for engaging in that. This wasn’t the 40’s or even the 60’s but 1980 when he did that.