Also explain why 98% of the black vote goes to the democratic party. The party that created Jim Crow, the party that fought FOR slavery, the party that fought to put black people back into chains, the party that used a given right to trick black people into voting for them for the next 200 years. Why do they do that? I can understand why you do that, you're an idiot, but why do black people do that? Originally Posted by JD BarleycornBecause Republicans are no longer for freedom for everyone, nor equal rights, civil rights or minorities (not to mention women, gays or fairness). What you say was all true up until 1965 when it changed completely with the Conservative Movement and LBJ as President. Most of the racist Dixiecrats in the old Democratic Party abandoned ship when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act or 1965 and joined the Republican Party fool. Since then Democrats have supported policies that helped minorities far more than Republicans who abandoned equal rights, civil rights and fairness to pursue the glorification of business and power. As LBJ said the Dems lost the South for at least a decade because of that. Oh, and don't forget the Republican's Southern Strategy has contributed to blacks voting for Democrats when they voted heavily for Republicans for the last 100 years up until 1965 when they were allowed to vote (poll taxes). BTW, there were plenty of poll taxes, Jim Crow and sundown towns up north in Republican areas but you don't hear about it much.
Also there were Democrats in the North and Republicans in the South so they aren't really "the party that fought FOR slavery".
