[...] If blacks started splitting their votes in the way non-hispanic whites do and nothing else changed, yes, the Democrats would be in something of a bind. But that would only be so if you imagine that voting blocs exist in a vacuum, with no dynamic relationship to the rest of the electorate.
Let me be more concrete: Why do blacks vote so disproportionately for Democrats? And if the GOP changed the policies and attitudes which demonstrably alienate or fail to attract black voters now, would that in turn alienate other voters who are now reliably Republican? It probably won't surprise you terribly to hear that I think the answer is, yes! [...]
| Talking Points Memo's Joshua Micah Marshall takes the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto to task over an item in the Journal's "Best of the Web" briefs that referenced an earlier Marshall post on black votes' perceived value.
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