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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (61888)12/15/2002 6:12:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I still view it as part of the Nixon legacy, trying to get the white Southern, previously Dem, vote in 68 and 72.

I think most of the Republican party, especially the younger generation, is trying to get away from this heritage. Bush has made real efforts to win minority votes, and it's apparently something of a sore point with him that he has conspicuously failed to win black votes (he got about 5% of the black vote in 2000).

It will be better all around if the Republicans do manage to get rid of Lott and this Nixon heritage. They will have to put the race card behind them once and for all (let's not talk about the 2000 S. Carolina campaign). If they manage, several good things will happen. Blacks can be conservatives without being called race traitors, and will have two parties competing for their votes, instead of only one party which can take them for granted. And the Republicans will be free to oppose Al Sharpton-style group victim politics, on principle.
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