“What is happening is that some younger African Americans begin to identify with the GOP -- what pollsters refer to as 'weak identifiers' -- and then the GOP leadership adopts some policy position (e.g., opposition to affirmative action) or subsequently commits some gaffe (such as the South Carolina confederate flag or Trent Lott episodes), and the weak identifiers cease identifying with the Republican Party.”
| A quote from senior policy analyst David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Joe Davidson's "Black Republicans Seek Voters, But Black Voters Don’t Trust GOP"
Also: The Joint Center's Republican National Convention coverage also includes "Blacks and the 2004 Republican National Convention" (analysis by Bositis, tables and a full document in PDF format)
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