How a party spent decades making itself white
“At key moments in history, Republicans considered greater outreach to minority voters but ultimately didn’t take that path.”
“The GOP’s whitewashed political reality is no accident — the party has repeatedly chosen to pursue white voters at the cost of others decade after decade. Since the mid-20th century, the Republican Party has flirted with both the morality of greater racial inclusion and its strategic benefits. But time and again, the party’s appeals to white voters have overridden voices calling for a more racially diverse coalition, and Republicans’ relative indifference to the interests of voters of color evolved into outright antagonism.”
Listen to the podcast here:
(https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-how-the-gop-chose-to-be-a-white-party)
And read the article here:
(https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-republican-choice)
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