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Historically, the antipathy of American Blacks to the Republican Party amounts to an undeserved public relations coup for the Democrats. It is an allegiance completely without logic behind it. As stated previously, the Republican Party was founded in1854 as the party that was dedicated to the destruction of slavery in America. The Democrats of that time were the strongly pro-slavery party. It was Republicans and Lincoln who won the 1860 election that led to the civil war and the 13th Amendment. Fast forward to the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964. These legal break outs were almost unanimously supported by Republican legislators and were nearly exclusively opposed by Democrats, including Al Gore, Sr., Democrat Senator from Tennessee. Republican economic policies are clearly friendlier to the long term interests of the working poor, including blacks. Republicans at federal and state levels have put far more blacks into key governing and policy making positions. Yet, Democrats safely command well over 90% of the black vote. The answer is twofold; the weakness or outright absence of Republican outreach to blacks over the years and the convincing lies and misrepresentations of Democratic policies primarily enthroned in the creation of a welfare state that, at the end of the day, did much to destroy the black family and their natural conservative leanings. Even now, with the positive results of welfare reform yielding great benefits, blacks do not seem to have either benefited from or changed their political loyalties. Sadly, the recent political wreckage created by inept Republican leadership and the Iraq War is a very severe political set back that may turn out to be one squandered opportunity too many. RIP.