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Some Democrats want to make sure there will never be a Repulican ever ruling again


https://youtu.be/eXyJSaW6Df0
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-political-power.html

Black people reverse the Great Migration — the mass migration of millions of African-Americans largely from the rural South to cities primarily in the North and West that spanned from 1916 to 1970. That they return to the states where they had been at or near the majority after the Civil War, and to the states where Black people currently constitute large percentages of the population. In effect, Black people could colonize the states they would have controlled if they had not fled them.

In the first census after the Civil War, three Southern states — South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana — were majority Black. In Florida, Blacks were less than two percentage points away from constituting a majority; in Alabama, it was less than three points; in Georgia, just under four.

But the Great Migration hit the South like a bomb, siphoning off many of the youngest, brightest and most ambitious. In South Carolina, the Black share of the population declined from 55 percent to about 30 percent. Over six decades, six million people left the South.

Reversing that tide would create dense Black communities, and that density would translate into statewide political power.

Generally speaking, mass movements are largely for the young and unencumbered. Moving is expensive and psychologically taxing, displacing one from home, community and comforts. But I believe those obstacles are outweighed by opportunity. All who are able should consider this journey.


Sounds like the south is changing along with the opportunities. Basically trying to convince blacks to move back to the south and make it all Democrat. Might be hard to do considering the deep south is majority black and do vote Republican, I think.

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"Might be hard to do considering the deep south is majority black and do vote Republican, I think."

Is this a joke? Trump won eight percent of the black vote and that was an improvement by two percent over 2016.

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Maybe I heard it wrong. The guy mentioned the 'deep south' that are still majority black so I assumed since those deep southern states being majority black would have voted Republican then since the GOP have almost always won the Southern States for the most part since the 1960's.

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There is no state in the union that is "majority black". Blacks are 10% of the US population, they don't have majorities in any state.

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I stand corrected, well, whatever place (county) that makes them a power house to affect votes in office from being Republican. Like how Georgia turned blue because of black turnout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population

Heh, 14% now.

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Thanks, and props for admitting mistake, as it's a rare quality on this board for sure.

Yeah if blacks were majority in the south then there'd be a permanent Democratic majority in the USA and the country would look far different.

They're not the majority but if you ever visit any of those high black population southern states in your link you'll see how segregation is still alive and well. There are areas where you won't see a single white person driving through it. Mississippi at the top as a former plantation state being the worst offender.

But you're right, at a 38.5% black population in Mississippi and 90% voting Dem you'd only need 20% of whites to vote Dem and you could turn the most redneck state of all solid blue. Although that assumes population numbers neatly translates to eligible voters which isn't the case in the south when you take into account voter suppression.

With Georgia at 33% at 90% voting Dem you wouldn't need many whites to crossover either. So how have Republicans had a stranglehold on every statewide office and presidential elections in Georgia? Voter suppression.

I credit Trump as the biggest reason for turning Georgia blue and gifting the dems a majority in the Senate. McConnell thinks so too.

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Seems to me like some Republicans want that too.

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And neither of them want an Independent elected.

Just think of Minnesota, both parties united to insure that Jesse Ventura did not accomplish anything while he was governor.

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The "Great Migration" already reversed half a century ago. Blacks started migrating back to the south from the north in the 1960s along with other races, a trend that's continued to this day. That's because the south has been freer and filled with more opportunities in the era of the New South Economy. The south's income, while starting from a poorer point, has also risen faster over those decades than any other region's.

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For the last 15 years the black communities by me have shrunk.
Most have moved to southern states where family was.
The central American community took over everything that was black.


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