African american Quote by Rand Paul

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party…

— Rand Paul

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

— Rush Limbaugh

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

— Rand Paul

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the…

— Michael Steele

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

— Edward Brooke

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here…

— Ken Mehlman

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

— Bernie Sanders

“At least on paper, Congress had dramatically enlarged federal power and black rights. In December 1866 only about 0.5 percent of black adult males…

— Richard White

When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected…

— Adam Cohen

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two…

— Allen West

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

— Max Boot