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Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 41. Weight in Grams: 938.
Sceptics might rationalise that Mitt Romney received a scant 6 percent of the black vote in 2012 only because African Americans would naturally favour one of their own. But since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has attracted more than 15 percent of the black electorate, and few GOP candidates for other offices have fared much better. No segment of the American electorate is more reliably Democratic than African Americans. The GOP, meanwhile, remains nearly an all-white party.
In this path-breaking book, historian Timothy Thurber illuminates the deep roots of this gulf by exploring the contentious, and sometimes surprising, ... Read more
Sceptics might rationalise that Mitt Romney received a scant 6 percent of the black vote in 2012 only because African Americans would naturally favour one of their own. But since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has attracted more than 15 percent of the black electorate, and few GOP candidates for other offices have fared much better. No segment of the American electorate is more reliably Democratic than African Americans. The GOP, meanwhile, remains nearly an all-white party.
In this path-breaking book, historian Timothy Thurber illuminates the deep roots of this gulf by exploring the contentious, and sometimes surprising, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619382
SKU
V9780700619382
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Timothy N. Thurber is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and author of The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle.
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