Why does it appear that Blacks in general embrace the Democratic Party?

Question

Why does it appear that the Blacks embrace the Democratic Party? When in throughout history it was the Democratic party that seem to be the most oppressive towards Blacks, or is the black race just following masters instructions?

Lincolon was a Republican

Democrats voted againt segeration

George Wallace was a Democrat he fought desegeration

Southern Democrats supported and passed "Jim Crow" Laws.

The south was in general Democrat up to and well after the War of Northern Agression.


I can go on and on.

Answer 1

I don't know were some of the people got their answeres, maybe from the book of political mis information. The Democrats did control the south prior to the Civil War.



Lincoln's election was one of the catalist that helped set into motion sucession.



A Democratic-Republican dynasty then governed the US for many years, until the Democratic-Republicans split into two parties in the 1820s, the Democrats (who were still formally called the Democratic-Republicans) and the Whigs. Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat elected after the split in 1828, and campaigned for universal male sufferage, westward expansion, and agrarian democracy. Jackson also helped hold the Union together in the late 1820s when it was threatened with seperatist machinations by Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, an ardent supporter of slavery.



Democrats continued to govern the United States throughout the first half of the 19th century, with the exception of the period between 1841 and 1845, when a Whig governed. Democrats continued to hold the presidency until the election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln, a member of the new Republican party, gained the high office.





The Civil War (1861-1865) marked a period of change and transition for many Democrats. As the Democratic Party had part of its base in the South, the party found itself split into pro and anti-war factions. Many Democrats approved of the prosecution of the war, including Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice-president, who was from Tennessee, a seceded state. However, when the war concluded in 1865, the Democrats, once the party of the majority, found themselves in a extended period of minority status.





Personally I don't see the question as racist either.

Answer 2

"Lincolon was a republican" ????



You're talking ancient history here.



Trent Lott and Jesse Helms are repubicans, as was Strom Thurmond. Any of those names ring a bell? What are they famous/notorious for? It hasn't been all that long ago that Reps voted against a holiday for MLK. When Bush ran in Florida on Nov. 7, 2000, his brother's state, countless blacks were still denied the right to vote and some were even beaten, tear-gassed, and taken in to jail. It might as well have been 1950, not 2000. Republican poll workers stayed up all night on that election day, "hand-correcting" 30,000 absentee ballots, which mysteriously had a 2-1 ratio of republican-to-democratic votes. No one had a problem with that in Florida, but when a box containing only 230 votes was found in a black church just a few hours after the polls had closed, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris, who was also Dumbya's campaign manager, disallowed the votes. Or should I say she "terminated them with extreme prejudice."



And then there's the chads. Al Gore is the only candidate who had a problem with hanging, dimpled, pregnant, or double-punched chads. Dubya's were as pure as the driven snow, just like all of this last six years have been for the middle class, the working class, and the poor.



So you're comparing the "oppressive" democratic party of 44-150 years ago to the republican party of Plantation Owners of today and tomorrow, and you're asking why blacks in general embrace the democratic party.



I'd say it's because they're not as stupid and ignorant as white folk who know how deep they have to dig in their pockets for a dime, and still believe we're "more prosperous than we've ever been" just because Dumbya says so. The White House, the Senate, Congress, and the Supreme Court are all republican-controlled, and they have been for awhile now. Quite awhile.



And eight trillion dollars in debt, no taxes from the rich when they die and none on their dividends, not even when these things run in the billions each year for one individual like Sam Walton or Bill Gates, a fake war that is even less popular than Viet Nam was in 1973/'74, and on and on. All of these things speak for themselves, and they speak volumes. We'll be paying for these follies for the rest of our lives, and for the rest of our grandchildren's lives.



And then there's Dubya's squashing of the Constitution and Civil Rights after we've worked so hard to get and keep these things, and every cemetery in the Nation is full of good, decent, selfless men and women who died defending those very things and the democratic principles that are the Bedrocks of our entire Nation.



Maybe it's not so much that any thinking/informed/coherent person embraces the democratic party. They just despise the republican party. Everybody gotta be someplace.

Answer 3

becasue the democratic peoples party along with the ais of the peoples media have convinced black america that only they care about blacks and through them they will get the freebies they deserve. The Dems have done this with lies and distortion of the truth.never mind the fact that social programs created wards of the state who vote democrat and the democrats were the party of slavery. the Republican Party freed the slaves.

Answer 4

The republican party has an image of wealth and power that many in the black community and other minority groups either dont relate with or can understand. Its a machevelian premise that because these people must be in control they must also have gotten there by illegitemate means and be looking to oppress and degrade them.

Answer 5

George Bush has allegedly stated African individuals as “******” and “*******” contained in the previous. We first received information concerning this declare because it pertains to George Bush very last week. A source who claims to be a former acquaintance of George Bush, and frolicked with him stated, “We aren’t associates now and this turned right into a lengthy time period back. yet I considered some issues he stated and those ain’t proper. George stated some thing about doing proper for the blacks yet I remember at the same time as he calls them ****** and *******.” it appears that evidently the references weren’t made with the aid of George Bush at the moment. in spite of the undeniable fact that the very reality of the matter is that if George W. Bush had ever made such comments do you've a suitable to understand, and could they influence your opinion of him?George Bush curiously made those comments in passing, and in a matter of reality variety of way. it appears that evidently at the same time as President Bush used the words ****** or ******* it wasn’t finished will malice or to threaten a human being. George Bush become curiously purely making use of the words as a slang time period to describe African individuals. The source supported that once they stated, “It become purely kinda the way we stated them (blacks) persons. Didn’t mean no longer some thing with the aid of it. purely the way it is.” ought to this clarify George Bush’s lack of involvement with the African American community, and his failure to be considered at present day conventions and/or activities at the moment hosted with the aid of African American communities? I don’t comprehend if those comments made with the aid of George W. Bush were end results of the the cases in the course of his upbringing. in reality I wasn’t there to inform you if he even used those words. yet I see obvious clarification why, if he did use those words, George Bush might want to come ahead and clarify the context and reason for use of such language.

Answer 6

The Republican party doesn't care about race, only money and then only their money.



Democrats are less warlike

More socially aware

more environmentally friendly



under Republican presidencies our country always experiences more racial outcries, less productivity, more crime, (economically related), more wars and less respect from other nations.



And not only Blacks but most educated Americans are Democrats.

Answer 7

MLK was a die-hard democrat, as was Malcolm X.

The south was largely Republican at the beginning of the Civil War.



THE REPULBICANS (IN EARLY 1900's) ELECTED 12 MEMBERS OF THE KKK TO THE SENATE.

Answer 8

democrats are responsible for the civil rights act of 1964,and the lessor known but more important voting rights act of 1965

Answer 9

WAsnt it democrats who were up in a fuss about some rap lyrics, wanting to ban rap?

Answer 10

Because Democraps are the ones who would actually support welfare and have considered reperations checks.

Answer 11

WELL WHATS THE COLOR OF THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR PARTY.........HELL ITS OBVIOUS....EXCEPT TO A BIGOT LIKE YOU

Answer 12

BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CHOICE AND PERHAPS DP IS THE BEST OF THE TWO EVILS!

Answer 13

no idea