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The questions conservatives need to ask is why are they being labeled as "racists". If you look at history from the 1960's through today. The answer is clear. The Republican party was taken over by the Conservative movement and abandoned Lincoln for Goldwater. The Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln. Republicans used white middle class backlash against civil rights to create a white majority party. They used race to divide America to drive liberal whites and minorities to the Democratic Party. Suburban Whites and segregationists to the Republican Party.
If the GOP wants to win more black votes, it will need to get a lot more "racist."
The scare quotes are necessary because I don't think the Republican Party is racist now (and, historically, the GOP has a lot less to answer for than the Democratic Party does).
But that hasn't stopped a lot of people from slandering Republicans as racist for one reason or another.
Right now, many in Washington -- particularly the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus -- insist that Republican attacks on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice are racist and, yawn, sexist. The basis...
Reagan's "Welfare Queens who drive Cadillac's", "War on Drugs", "Tough on Crime", "Willie Horton" ads, "People on Welfare are lazy", these slogans have the subliminal message of equating "Crime with being Black" "Poor blacks with laziness". It plays on suburban white fears and stereotypes to divide conservative white suburbans against minorities and offend moderates and white liberals.
Read the book "A Choice not an Echo" by Phyllis Schafly and the Book "The new emerging Republican Majority". by Kevin Phillips. Two books written by conservatives in the 1960's that became the template for using racial divisions, extremism, ideological purity and a white majority to grow the Republican party. Also read "Invisible Hands" by Kim Phillips-Fien.