Black Republicans Win First Congress Seats Since 2003

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kokonut said:
Not quite. One country encourages Mexicans to cross the border illegally while another country like Cuba does not with threat of imprisonment or execution. Mexico isn't a repressive regime but Cuba is. Heck, Mexico is 2nd largest oil exporter to the United States beating out Saudi Arabia as number 3. And yet Mexico is like a "prison"? More like poor planning on what to do with all that money selling oil to the United States. Not to mention the numerous American industries inside of Mexico helping create jobs there. Mexico doesn't have an excuse, Cuba does when it comes to freedom from a repressive regime.
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A bit more difficult for those poor Cubans to cross the water to America, wouldn't you say?
On another note, if the Republicans can get back to total domination, perhaps we can invade Mexico to look for WMD?
 
kokonut said:
I find it troubling that people join a party known for its past KKK and slavery affiliation.


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He's distorting the history of politics.

They were Dixie Democrats - they're much more aligned with Republicans.

"The States' Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a shortlived segregationist, socially conservative political party in the United States. It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the Southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government[1], and supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states. The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were often called Dixiecrats."

Dixiecrat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
saywhatkid said:
Now the math imp in me wants to add more data, mined from my own mind.

Since 1970, on average:
Every year two Black Democrats are elected.
Every decade, one Black Republican is elected.

Personally, I would see if you can get this thread deleted before it is too late. :cool2:
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Like I said, you have to read "Unfounded Loyalty" to really, really understand the history and context of why blacks look to a Democrat party. I can't really help you on that unless you understand the history and background.
 
kokonut said:
Like I said, you have to read "Unfounded Loyalty" to really, really understand the history and context of why blacks look to a Democrat party. I can't really help you on that unless you understand the history and background.
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I think I will pass on the Koko Book Club book of the month special.:P I am just looking at numbers here. Not trying to make excuses for either side. It strikes me as very odd; the differences shown are quite dramatic.
 
Suppose the Republicans say, "I now support gay marriage and will give them equal protection as straight married couples have." A lot of gays will switch in no time.

Political parties change their agendas over time.
 
saywhatkid said:
I think I will pass on the Koko Book Club book of the month special.:P I am just looking at numbers here. Not trying to make excuses for either side. It strikes me as very odd; the differences shown are quite dramatic.
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That book is about history. And an interesting read on the mindset out there on how people were taken advantage of. For example, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks right up to the mid 1960s which was only but four decades ago, Republicans devoted their time to pass laws to help blacks in those times. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

Another funny little history. There were three white people who opposed the Democrat's racist practices including the killing of blacks founded and funded the NAACP. How ironic.
 
My state, Mass. has a Black Dem.Governor . He won his second term this election. I think this was the first time we had a Black Governor in Mass. There has been only 4 Black Governors in the all the states! This country still has a long way to go if we only had 4 Black Governors so far!
 
Doug Wilder was the fist black governor of VA. He used to be the mayor of Richmond as well.
 
Mustn't forget Jindal as governor of Louisanna. Though he's not black but you get the idea.

But on the more recent events, like this election, we have South Carolina State Rep. Haley who became the first female Indian-American governor in the country, and the first woman to lead her state.

Oklahoma also elected its first female governor.

Nevada's Republican Attorney General, Brian Sandoval become the state's first Latino governor.

So, there are a lot of firsts here, especially among minorities.

And then we have conservative Republican Marco Rubio, a latino Senator, who exhibit rare qualities and traits who could run for president someday. Rubio has a solid conservative political philosophy. Secondly, he is charismatic. And lastly he has the ability to effectively articulate a conservative message. And Rubio won the race in a landslide. No wonder Clinton/Obama was desperate in trying to help Crist win. Crist was once a Republican before Rubio beat him out in the primary. He then became an independent and sought Obama's help but later Clinton got caught in trying convince Meek, a black Democrat candidate, to leave the race so that Clinton can support Crist but Clinton ended up stumping for Meek....unsucessfully so.
 
netrox said:
He's distorting the history of politics.

They were Dixie Democrats - they're much more aligned with Republicans.

"The States' Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a shortlived segregationist, socially conservative political party in the United States. It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the Southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government[1], and supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states. The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were often called Dixiecrats."

Dixiecrat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yes. The states rights platform was used to deny others their rights.
 
kokonut said:
Mustn't forget Jindal as governor of Louisanna. Though he's not black but you get the idea.

But on the more recent events, like this election, we have South Carolina State Rep. Haley who became the first female Indian-American governor in the country, and the first woman to lead her state.

Oklahoma also elected its first female governor.

Nevada's Republican Attorney General, Brian Sandoval become the state's first Latino governor.

So, there are a lot of firsts here, especially among minorities.

And then we have conservative Republican Marco Rubio, a latino Senator, who exhibit rare qualities and traits who could run for president someday. Rubio has a solid conservative political philosophy. Secondly, he is charismatic. And lastly he has the ability to effectively articulate a conservative message. And Rubio won the race in a landslide. No wonder Clinton/Obama was desperate in trying to help Crist win. Crist was once a Republican before Rubio beat him out in the primary. He then became an independent and sought Obama's help but later Clinton got caught in trying convince Meek, a black Democrat candidate, to leave the race so that Clinton can support Crist but Clinton ended up stumping for Meek....unsucessfully so.
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Forgot to add more Republican governors.

Suzanna Martinez in New Mexico became the first female Hispanic Governor in the US State history ever – from either party.

And Jaime Herrera in Washington state who chose not to highlight her Hispanic origins won the HR seat in the third Congressional District. She ran an issues-based campaign, and won easily.

And you have Raul Labrador, a Puerto Rico-born attorney, won the Idaho first Congressional District seat.

Conservative Republicans were very happy to see these people win their respective slots.

So, it's certainly not all white. We enjoy seeing people of various ethnic and minority backgrounds on joining the Republican party. It's a people party.
 
What about Congressman Darrell Issa? He is a Lebanese descent. He is one of them who helped to remove CA Gov. Gary Davis from the office. Let's see.. Sam Abed was born and raised in Lebanon. He was a councilman for a city in the San Diego county for a long while. He was running for a mayor, and he won.
 
saywhatkid said:
Is this really progress? I guess so, when you look at the number of Black Democrats elected to HR compared to Black Republicans, since 1970...:shock:
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What do you think that indicates?
 
Foxrac said:
The black republicans will win if their district is mostly conservative like Reba's district.
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I know many conservative black people here, and in other places that we visit.
 
The GOP saw their first Hispanic woman governor in New Mexico (the first ever in any states on either parties) and the first Indian-American woman governor in South Carolina. And you have the first Hispanic governor of Nevada as well. Of course, two years ago you got the first Indian origin (India) governor of LA, Bobby Jindal. What do you think that indicates?
 
Is it just me, or is this thread turning racist?
 
Nothing racist, but about seeing that diversity is expanding in all levels of our government.
Why do you think it's racist, Beowulf, on pointing out ethnic diversity in the Republican party? Rather odd on the attempt to play the racist card when there is none.
 
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