Blexodus: The Black Exodus From The GOP

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How did the party of the Ku Klux Klan became the party of choice for black voters? And how did the party of Abraham Lincoln become 90 percent white? It's a messy story, exemplified by the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.

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0:00.0	It's good job you're listening to Co-Switch from MPR, I'm Jean Demby.
0:05.1	And I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji and it's Black History Month and all month long we've
0:09.6	been bringing you stories about black resistance.
0:12.4	You may have noticed Co-Switch listeners that it is also the month when the presidential
0:17.4	campaign kicks off in earnest.
0:19.3	I have noticed, I'm exhausted.
0:22.0	I am so tired.
0:23.4	This election cycle has been going on since before I was born.
0:27.2	That's how it feels.
0:28.2	It's been going on forever and there's so much election season left Shereen.
0:33.6	So far we've only heard from Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire about who they
0:38.2	want to be their party's nominee.
0:40.5	And those two nominating contests underline one of the trickiest dynamics in the Democratic
0:45.5	campaign.
0:46.5	These two states that help establish a front runner.
0:49.8	They are very, very extremely totally, not completely totally but like 90 percent white.
0:58.1	Very, very white.
0:59.8	And so while white Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire might go up for people like Pete
1:04.7	Voodage and Amy Klobuchar, the national polls show that they have almost no support from
1:09.9	black Democrats who will be voting in much browner states that we'll be having their
1:13.4	primaries later.
1:14.7	But the viability of all these candidates might ultimately depend on convincing Latinx
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