'The Republican Party should be far more representative of the entire population. And it doesn't have that.
"I'm not sure they're going to even try. Nixon won the White House without a Black vote two times, Reagan won the White House without a Black vote two times. Bush won the White House without a Black vote one time. Bush junior has won it without a Black vote. When they look at their dollars and realize that the Hispanics are chomping at the bits to get aboard, I'm not sure they're going to make a bona fide effort to attract Blacks."
| A quote from Arthur Fletcher, Jr., former assistant secretary of labor in the Nixon administration, in NNPA Washington correspondent Hazel Trice Edney's "Black Republicans Question Party’s Commitment" for the Wilmington Journal
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