I don't know why he had to bring black people into this. (I mean I
do, with context and all, but that's besides the point) Assuming the minimum wage
was bad, you could say most people, not just blacks, don't understand that, or why. After all, large majorities support raising the minimum wage every time the matter is polled.
African American voters have Stockholm Syndrome, and Democrats are incredibly proud for the psychological disease they have engendered in the minority community.
I
will say that 60+ plus years of blacks' support for the Democratic Party hasn't done terribly much to improve their wellbeing- it's not like the Civil Rights Movement was some DNC operation, and the Civil Rights Acts received more support from Congressional Republicans than it did from Congressional Democrats. I'm not sure what this "psychological disease" you refer to is, though. I would say that more was done for black people in the 20 years following the Civil War by Republicans than has been done by Democrats ever since.
However, I'm not Oldiesfreak, and I'm not suggesting black people should vote Republican because of thing people did 150 years ago... nor should they vote for Democrats based off of what happened half a century ago (that wasn't particularly the work of the Democratic Party, anyway).
But you'd also have to be rather unobservant to take notice of the fact that the modern Republican Party has been perceived as being less than entirely welcoming to, uh, people like myself, nor has it seemed particularly concerned with disabusing such notions. Now I manage because I'm quite decidedly
not a liberal, and the Republicans in my neck of woods are less prone towards the sort of inclinations that makes the average black person come to the conclusion that the Republican Party is not at all aligned with their interests.
Oh, why did the Southern Strategy have to go wrong and saddle us with all the racists and treason sympathisers?
Black voters are more rational actors than white voters. Black Republicans are generally upper class. It makes sense.
It's these poor whites complaining about the moochers not paying income tax that make no sense.
This is a good post. I misread the second sentence as "Upper class blacks are generally Republican," which I was going to say I didn't think was true, but that's not what you said, so...
