Learn some history, if you are correct there is no explanation why Einstein was a liberal that left Germany and helped other Jews Escape Nazi Germany. Oh, and he also helped defend many Black Americans from the usual pumped up accusations that were racially motivated back in the day.
If you’re saying that racist voters switched to the GOP, maybe, but it doesn’t matter. If you’re saying that the racist politicians switched to the GOP, that’s revisionist history. Nearly all the segregationist Democrats stayed Democrats until the day they retired or died. Strom Thurmond is the only Senator to switch, and no governors did. And even Thurmond doesn’t really count, because when he switched he became one of the most progressive southerners on race while a lot of his Democratic compatriots remained ardent racists.
This is false- Thurmond did not moderate his views for at least a decade after becoming a Republican. And he never apologized for or renounced his earlier views on segregation.
A decade later, how were the segregationist Democrats doing?
The whole revisionist history thing is stupid, because it’s not like the Republicans became segregationists and the Democrats renounced it. It simply ceased to be an issue and the parties found other things to disagree about.
Segregation still lives- it’s now called school vouchers. For many, sending their kids to public schools with significant minority populations is unacceptable, they send them to private schools with much much whiter demographics. And which party is always pushing for sending public money to these lily white schools? That’s right, the Grand Old White People’s Party.
Now you’re just being silly. Vouchers help minority students too, and African-Americans tend to support vouchers. It’s one of the few wedge issues Republicans have tried to use to pull African-Americans away from the Democratic party. That and immigration.
Poorly- they were renouncing their old views, or changing parties, or losing to Republicans in the South because of the Southern Strategy.
No, the Republican party just made a conscious effort to appeal to those racist white voters that felt aggrieved by Civil Rights (and other progressive victories)- also known as the Southern Strategy. There were still, unfortunately, millions of racist white voters- and the Republicans made a play for them. It worked, too- for a few decades, anyway.
Tell that to the minorities left in public schools that lose their funding via vouchers. How does the Republican Party use immigration as a wedge issue with blacks? By trying to convince them that they hate Hispanics even more than they hate blacks?
That should be the case, and it used to be the case, but now people who aren’t willing to take positions that are racists, anti-science, sexist or homophobic are called “RINOs” and made to feel not welcome. I was a republican, until I started to identify as a feminist and was no longer welcome. My father was a republican, but eventually they moved too far right - now they want his money, but abhor his positions - which were reasonable republican positions 30 years ago. Now, neither of us waited around until the party became personally disgusting to us - we left years ago, but neither of us had a lot invested in party identification.
I hope you’re sitting down, but I have bad news for you: you’re wrong.
Sure, in polls with poorly designed, no-context questions, you’ll sometimes find a bare majority of African Americans supporting vouchers. But when questions acknowledge the zero-sum-game of funding schools (that is, when the questions ask whether tax dollars should go to vouchers or straight to public schools), African Americans overwhelmingly oppose sending money to vouchers. And when the issue comes up at the ballot box, the Republican effort to use this as a wedge issue becomes pitifully unsuccessful.
If the question is, “No vouchers, or vouchers produced from the Magical Voucher Tree?” of course I’d support them. But if the question is whether vouchers should be paid for at the expense of our public school system, of course I’m gonna oppose them, and so will most African Americans.