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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
If abolition, broken color barriers, voting rights and civil rights are enough to “earn the Black vote”, then maybe the Republicans should stop trying! Imagine what America might look like today if the Democrats had been successful in 1865, 1868, 1964, and 1965.
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They probably would have kept the black vote if they hadn't worked so hard to take the racist vote from the Democrats. During the civil rights battles, most of the anti-civil-rights Democrats migrated to the Republican party.