daws101
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- #201
race for the right is always a factor...it goes along way in explaining the male middle-aged to old white Christian majority of the party..I did.. your inability to follow it is not my problem...Try making sense next time. It might help.
Following you would be a very bad idea.
You don't have to factor out race when race isn't a factor.
The 1964 civil rights act and subsequent 1965 voting rights act resulted in a change in the parties. From then onwards, the republican party was against measures to give voting rights to minorities, while the democratic party was in favor of granting minorities voting rights. Until then minorities in the South were prevented from voting via a number of discriminatory methods, some of the most common being literacy tests which were not scored impartially.
Minorities continue to favor the Democratic party because their right to vote is still under attack by the Republicans. Even in the 2000 election Florida selectively disenfranchised minority voters. They compiled a highly erroneous purge list of people they removed from the voting list without notification or due process. Thousands of them had never been convicted of a felony, many of those who had were supposed to have their voting rights restored already. Many of the disenfranchised merely had names that bore a slight resemblance to a convict. This illegal purge of poor and minority voters decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. Blacks accounted for 88% of those removed from the rolls, they made up only about 11% of Florida's voters.
in other words racist!
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