By The Admin on January 18, 2012
South Carolina has the nation’s first female Indian-American governor (a Republican), the highest-ranking African-American in Congress (on the Democratic side) and a rapidly growing population of Latinos, all evidence, longtime political players here say, that the state is shedding its racially charged past.
But like the historic slave plantations that draw tourists on the outskirts of [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on January 16, 2012
The isolation of being African-American and Republican rang clear to Sam Bain when he joined a group of about 100 other sign-waving protesters at a 2010 speech by President Barack Obama at Ohio State University.
“I was called a sellout, a racist, and one person even came right up to me and called me a house [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on January 10, 2012
New Hampshire’s primary grabs headlines today, but if history is any guide, the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary will play a far greater role in determining the Republican winner.
Of that state’s population, 28 percent are African American, and could be a major factor in the primary. But Republican candidates have made little effort to reach [...]
Posted in National Politics, Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on January 10, 2012
The Republican Party, founded by militant abolitionists and the political home through much of its history for committed foes of segregation and discrimination, has since the late 1960s been degenerating toward the crude politics of Southern strategies and what former Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater referred to as the “coded” language of complaints about [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on January 2, 2012
Former Democratic congressman Artur Davis, who has been a thorn in the side of Democrats in the aftermath of his loss in the 2010 Alabama gubernatorial primary, is a man without a political party.
In an interview with The Fix, Davis openly speculated about running for office as an independent or even a Republican. In both [...]
Posted in Party Politics
