So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.
I started out as a Democrat.
The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.
I belong to the Democratic Party.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.