I don't blame them too much, seeing as how the other side is packed with worthless "Southern Strategy" hicks.
What blacks should really aim for though is a hostile takeover. Register Republican en masse and cause as much disruption to the system as possible from within. Kinda like what Trump and Sanders both did this year.
The "Southern Strategy" was devised in the 1960's, is that right? A lot of that generation has died off or are in the final stages of their lives anyway. I don't know when the majority of Southerners switched parties, but I can go by my family and neighbors from growing up in N.O. Most of them were hardcore Democrats until the late 80s early 90s, and a lot of people I know switched parties almost solely based on one man, Edwin Edwards lol. Though a lot of people loved Edwin Edwards, even after his corruption was widely known and he went to prison for it, he still has supporters.
Hell, he ran for some minor office like last year and he had only been out of prison a couple years at the most. Just FYI, if you don't know who I'm talking about, Edwin Edwards was governor of Louisiana, served like four or five nonconsecutive terms. He was your classic, Southern "populist" governor. Stuck up for the little guy, came from a tiny little town in a heavily French part of the state, and spoke with a thick Cajun accent.
People liked that he stood up to the federal government and the big corporations, and the fact that he had that "neighborly" quality about him. He is the person responsible for bringing river boat gambling, and then gambling in general to Louisiana. The problem with him though, was that he was a greedy, extremely corrupt thief through and through. His rampant theft and his legalization of river boat gambling was what made many staunch Democrats switch parties in the 80s/90s from what I remember.
You may remember when former Klan leader David Duke ran for President in the 80s? He's the man that ditched the robes for a suit and tie, and tried to give the Klan and its unsympathetic hateful messages an "intellectual" front. Anyway, he ran for governor against Edwin Edwards in the early 1990s and it was actually a very close election!! LOL. Edwards won though, and a few years later, ended up in prison for accepting huge bribes among other things.
You can watch the Edwards/Duke gubernatorial debates on youtube, and despite David Duke being a former Klansmen, and a white separatist, you can't argue that he isn't clean-cut, well spoken, and can actually form a decent argument unlike most of the people that came out of that fringe group of separatist extremists.
One idea he proposed, which I personally didn't think was too awful, was that a single mother receiving welfare benefits could get a bonus to her monthly benefits if she agreed to have those birth control "rods" implanted in their arms to prevent them from having even more kids, thus adding to the burden of the taxpayers of supporting more children from unwed mothers with fathers who "disappear" and who aren't in the picture for whatever reason.
It's not even a racial thing. I, for one, don't like the idea of having to constantly support another persons bad decisions that they make over and over again, in this case, having kids with various men out of wedlock and who either don't work themselves or drop off the grid to prevent paying child support.
Of course its necessary to support these children, I don't blame the kids and I agree that they should be supported through government social programs if the family doesn't have the means to. But I don't think these irresponsible individuals need to keep having more children and if getting a birth control implant that lasts a few years would keep them from getting knocked up and having kids they can't afford to feed, I'm all for it.
Even still, I understand the unfortunate implications it could have and how the civil liberties crowd would be vocal against a measure this severe.
[EDIT: Wow, I think that might be my longest post in my entire history of internet use. TL:dr Governor Edwards caused many staunch Louisiana Democrats to switch parties in the 80s and 90s due to his legalization of riverboat gambling and his rampant corruption, long after the "Southern Strategy" was implemented in the 1960's.]
