re: "Fox News host makes disgustingly racist comments about African Americans"

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No, republicans are scared that courting the black vote will scare off the white Christian bloc that is a strong hold of their constituency.

its really that simple. They fear white flight

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In a nutshell, that's exactly what Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips said in a 1970 New York Times article:

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Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

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