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Blacks and the Republican Party: 1995.(15 YEARS OF LIBERAL INTELLIGENCE)

American Prospect, The,  June, 2005  by Swain, Carol M.

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In "The Future of Black Representation" in Fall 1995, Carol Swain warned that racial redistricting was helping Republicans. She's still warning Democrats.

CAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SUCCESSFULLY attract a growing percentage of the black vote? Barring new embarrassing blunders, such as the Trent Lott fiasco of a few years ago, the answer is an unequivocal "yes." Republicans could easily garner as much as 15 percent to 20 percent of the black vote in national elections, and, in the not-too-distant future, could even return to the much higher pre-Goldwater ...

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