How come minorities usually don't vote Republican?
For 100 years after the Civil War, blacks voted almost 100% Republican because Lincoln was a Republican, and Democrats were dominated by the south, where blacks were segregated and lynched by the southern Democrats. But by 1964, the growth of northern urban areas caused the northern liberal Democrats to gain power and eventually dominate the party. This transition occurred over the 30 year period from 1930 to 1960, during the FDR/Truman years. In 1964, a total change over of the Democratic Party occurred, as the Kennedy/LBJ liberals took over. They purchased the black vote with welfare money and other government assistance programs. Blacks turned around and backstabbed the Republicans by voting against them in favor of getting free money from the Democrats. So of course, blacks had to invent an excuse for their deplorable actions. Thus the myth was born that the parties had magically switched places overnight, and now somehow Republicans were the ones who had segregated and lynched blacks for 100 years, and the Democrats astonishingly became the party of Lincoln. People would say with a straight face things like, "Lincoln would be a Democrat today, because Democrats do more to help the blacks." Do more what.... keeping blacks in poverty in the ghetto, having children out of wedlock to get more welfare money, spending all day hanging around with nothing to do, getting addicted to drugs and infected with STD's..... yes, if this is doing more for blacks, they might have done better to stay with the Republicans.
Why were the Republicans so dominant from 1870 to 1932?
The Democrats, rightfully, were associated with Southern Secessionists and with the Northern Copperheads - sympathizer with the Confederates during the Civil War. Thus the Democrats were tainted as rebels, traitors, and fellow travelers of same. Although Demorcrat Woodrow Wilson had a successful two term presidency beginning in 1912,he only won the White House because the Republican vote was split between William Howard Taft and popular former Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt running on his own Bull Moose Party Ticket to unseat his chosen successor, Taft, with whom he had become disappointed. After WWI and the 1920 election of Republican Warren Harding, there were three successive Republican presidents. The disaster of the Great Depression was the undoing of Republican President Herbert Hoover who, seeking a second term, lost to Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt. Roosevelt dominated national politics over more than twelve years as president through Depression and WWII, dying early in his unprecedented fourth term in April 1945. His successor, Vice President Harry Truman, had a good first term but was seemingly unpopular by his run for his own second term in 1948, still unexpectedly beat Thomas Dewey against wide predictions. His elected term was overtaken by the Korean War in 1950 and he was truly out of public favor by the election of 1952 when very popular WWII hero, former General Deight Eisenhower, ran as a Republican and beat Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Since 1952, Republicans have won seven elections and Democrats have also won seven.
How did the republican party dominate politics in the 1920s?
Three presidents elected in the 1920s, and all three were Republicans (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover), the party that has traditionally been connected to, linked to, business. "The business of America is business." This worked fine until the stock market crash of 1929 and the first chance the American people had they threw the Republicans out and elected a Democrat, the party traditionally linked to government control and contributions to the poor, which the USA had plenty of in the 1930s.
Why did the republican party dominate national politics during the 1920's?
Basically they happened to be the party in power when things began to improve dramatically from an economic standpoint and people felt to keep things going well they needed to keep the Republicans in office rather than do anything different. When the economy collapsed it was a Republican in the White House and he bore much of the blame which resulted in him not being re-elected and the Democrats dominating the 1940s. It's a cyclical thing, the Republicans dominated again in the 1950s and the 1980s, the mood of the country basically changes with the economy.
Who will dominate federal politics in the USA in the next decade, Democrats or Republicans?
If things keep going the way they are I believe the Republicans will dominate. Number one, we have a Republican President who is doing great things that HE WAS ELECTED to do, despite the Democrats and the media continually lying about him, his administration, and his accomplishments. His base is energized and I think they will come out to vote in the mid terms and beyond, despite what CNN, MSNBC, and the others say.Number two is the Democrats have nothing to run on except tax increases, class warfare, racial warfare, Hillary won the popular vote, and socialism. Calling Trump an idiot and printing bogus stories from “unnamed sources” is growing old. When the ones yelling liar, liar, are found out as the real liars, it is hard for them to drum up much enthusiasm.The recently declassified texts and emails about the FISA warrants and politically active high level intelligence agency players will make the Mueller investigation look even stupider than it did already. That investigation is what the Democrats have been hanging their hats on and it is being exposed as a farce. Americans will not be happy when it is clearly shown that our government spied on an American because he was a member of the opposition’s campaign. It is unamerican and even those on the left (not the alt left) will be repulsed by it.
Why do most Rednecks tend to be Republican?
REDublican?
Are there more Republicans or Democrats in the United States?
I made this table for another question, but it serves to show the number of Democrats and Republicans in the last national election, in 2016. The total votes by Democrats were about 2.6 million more than those by Republicans. But voter turnout was not the best it has ever been, even given what was a pretty hotly contested matchup. There were discouraged voters on both sides. There were polls that predicted Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide. So there were a lot of questions as to whether or not everyone voted, that normally would have. Take note that the states that voted Republican have a population of 184 million versus those that voted Democrat at 141 million. That is why the electoral college works, in my opinion.Now here is a good chart from this article: Sabato's Crystal Ball that shows registered voters by state. Some states don’t require a voter to declare a party, so there are a lot of Independents shown on here. It would have you believe the Democrats are way ahead. But not so fast. Many Independents, like myself, are going to hold our nose and vote Republican most of the time, because it seems to be the lesser of two bad choices. I live in Arkansas, and based on this table, the Democrats and Republicans are pretty close. But in 2016, Trump nearly doubled Clinton’s votes.So based on self identification, it would appear there are more Democrats than Republicans. But it is obvious that more people that identify as “Independent” are voting Republican. That could be a consequence of the Republican Party losing it’s way on budgetary matters, as it is in my case. Or it could be that the Democratic Party’s policy of demonizing everyone that doesn’t think the way they do (The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech: Kirsten Powers) is working.