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Dilemma of White Voters Who Support Black Republicans
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November 12, 2021
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9:09Now PlayingA new article by FiveThirtyEight titled, “Why White Voters With Racist Views Often Still Support Black Republicans” unpacks the layers of what can be a nuanced topic.
Voting for Black Republicans, the authors argue, often calms “concerns of being seen as racist by enabling them to say, in essence, ‘I can’t be racist! I voted for a Black candidate!’”
One conclusion the authors make is that “Black Republicans…help assure racially prejudiced whites that, unlike Black Democrats, they are not in the business of carrying water for their own racial group... Black Republicans’ partisan and ideological commitments allay concerns that they are for ‘them,’ not ‘us.’”
Joe Watkins, former White House aide to George H.W. Bush, joins Charles Blow via phone on “Prime” to discuss this issue.
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