#Black voters

[whenweallvote]

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Dorie Ann Ladner, lifelong voting rights activist. 🕊️🗳️

Ms. Ladner participated in every major civil rights protest of the 1960s, including the March on Washington and the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. She was a key organizer in her home state of Mississippi, with contributions to the NAACP and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In June 1964, she launched a volunteer campaign called “Mississippi Freedom Summer,” with a goal of registering as many Black voters as possible. 

We remember and honor Dorie through the words of her sister and fellow activist, Joyce Ladner: as someone who “fought tenaciously for the underdog and the dispossessed,” and “left a profound legacy of service.”

#dorie ladner #dorie ann ladner #voting rights #civil rights #women's history month #mississippi #naacp #sncc #student nonviolent coordinating committee #black voters #black voter #activist #1960s

[blackgirlslivingwell]

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Part 2 of 2: Why These Black Women Are Voting For Trump - What's Going On??

In this video, I want to address a growing trend that I've recently been made aware of. I've been seeing a lot of Black women who have expressed that they're voting for Donald Trump, so I went to X and did a search for "Black Woman Trump" and I came across several postings. In this video, I'll share two of them. This is part 2.

#donald trump #trump #president donald trump #joe biden #biden #president joe biden #frustrated black voters #Black Republican women #black women support trump #black women vote for trump #black women vote for donald trump #black people donald trump #black woman trump democrats #politics #joe biden crime bill #republicans #democrats #black america #black voters #black voters trump #us politics #black women hold trump accountable #black conservatives #bglw #trending #viral

[reasoningdaily]

Disinfranchisement Laws - in america

#Disinfranchisement Laws - in america #voting rights #Black Voters #civil rights

[8-rock]

On this election day, there are lots of forces at work to keep Black people from getting to the polls. Or, if we do cast a vote, to keep that vote from being counted. Let's not make it easy. Turn up at the polls and bring a friend (or two or three).  

VOTE! #Election2022 

Voting While Black: https://bit.ly/LWBlack

#vote #please vote #black voters #black votes matter #black voices #ajuan mance #living while black #voting while black #black lives matter #black lives #election #election day #digital art #black art #black artist #your vote #your vote matters #your vote counts #every vote counts

[blackvotersmatterfund]

Black Voters Matter Launches New Ad Campaign; Contract Urges Political Candidates’ Commit to Protect Voters’ Rights

ATLANTA — Black Voters Matter, alongside its civil rights and advocacy partners, urges candidates running for office this midterm season to sign a printed contract to affirm their support for voters’ rights. 

The contract – part of the larger One Million for Voting Rights campaign –  is a key element of a new ad drive that starts this week. It calls on political candidates to take a firm stance on upholding democracy as voters head to the polls. By signing the contract, candidates convey their dedication to the passage of legislative bills and measures including the Freedom to Vote: John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which, among other things, would restore the Justice Department’s authority to police election laws in states with a history of discrimination; the Admission Act that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state of the United States; and filibuster reform that would eliminate further barriers to voting rights, democracy or constitutional measures. 

Despite nearly two years of Capitol Hill protests, White House demonstrations, letters, petitions, and acts of civil disobedience from voters and activists demanding passage of comprehensive voting rights legislation, voters still do not have free and fair access to the ballot box as we continue to see voter suppression tactics on the rise this election season,” said Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown, co-founders of Black Voters Matter. “This ad campaign is an extension of our #1MStrong for voting rights work and a reminder that voter rights are still in jeopardy. Along with our partners, we are ringing the alarm and urging all candidates running for office this year to be clear about where they stand on voting rights. With our democracy still on the line, voters should know who they are voting for and hold them accountable.”  

Ads will appear in daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and North Carolina as those states prepare to vote this week. The campaign will expand to additional news outlets nationwide in the coming weeks. 

#black voters #blackvotersmatter #power #love #blackvoters #itsaboutus #vote #cantstopwontstop #votingrights #getregistered #takethepledge #onemillionstrong #contract #candidatecontract #midtermelections

[usafirstpatriot]

#president donald j trump #black voters

[blackgirlsreverything]

Living in a predominantly black southern city sometimes makes you forget you stay in racist states. It’s almost like living on your own island……. until elections lol

#southern states #red states #democrats #republicans #progressives #mid term elections #independents #black voters #black southern voters

[itsmythang]

Alabama has a new, fairer congressional map that gives Black voters an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.  This is a historic win for voting rights and democracy, and it happened thanks to the hard work of Black voters, advocates, and organizations like

@RedistrictFdn.

#Alabama #Congressional Map #Black Voters

[africanamericanreports]

Pro-Trump conservatives are making a push to win over black votes to support the former president with images generated by artificial intelligence.

Conservatives have published dozens of false images designed to deceive the public, also known as “deepfakes,” featuring black voters wearing pro-Trump paraphernalia and standing around him, according to the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

#AI #deep fake #african american #black voters #black vote

[sordidamok]

They've been doing everything they can to disenfranchise Black voters for years - why do they get mad when someone talks about it?

#black voters #voter suppression #vote biden #vote blue #vote democrat #vote blue to save democracy #vote democratic #vote blue 2024 #democratic socialism #democracy #democrats #social democracy #democrats now socialism later #ffs vote blue #republican racism

[whenweallvote]

On This Day in 1940: Congressman John Lewis, a proud son of the South and voting rights giant, was born. 

Even as he rests, his work to protect the rights of Black Americans to safely and freely cast their ballots continues. 

His legacy lives on through the activists getting into ‘Good Trouble’ in the fight for voting rights across the country.

#on this day #otd #john lewis #johnlewis #congressman john lewis #black voters #edmund pettus bridge #good trouble

[blackgirlslivingwell]

🔥Full Video

Part 1 of 2: Why These Black Women Are Voting For Trump - What's Going On??

In this video, I want to address a growing trend that I've recently been made aware of. I've been seeing a lot of Black women who have expressed that they're voting for Donald Trump, so I went to X and did a search for "Black Woman Trump" and I came across several postings. In this video, I'll share two of them. This is part 1.

#donald trump #trump #president donald trump #joe biden #biden #president joe biden #frustrated black voters #Black Republican women #black women support trump #black women vote for trump #black women vote for donald trump #black people donald trump #black woman trump democrats #politics #joe biden crime bill #republicans #democrats #black america #black voters #black voters trump #us politics #black women hold trump accountable #black conservatives #bglw #trending #viral

[larrywilmore]

News media & false narratives

Why does Tiffany Cross think "the Democrats have a hard on for white voters"? We talk about that & how the news media is driving a false narrative about black voters.

Listen to our full conversation on @spotify

#larry wilmore #black on the air #the ringer #spotify #politics #trump #tiffany cross #black voters

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: John Burn-Murdoch

Published: Mar 11, 2024

NEW 🧵:

American politics is in the midst of a racial realignment.

I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the US today, and one of the most poorly understood.

Last week, an NYT poll showed Biden leading Trump by less than 10 points among non-white Americans, a group he won by almost 50 points in 2020.

Averaging all recent polls (thnx @admcrlsn), the Democrats are losing more ground with non-white voters than any other demographic.

People often respond to these figures with accusations of polling error, but this isn’t just one rogue result.

High quality, long-running surveys like this from Gallup have been showing a steepening decline in Black and Latino voters identifying as Democrats for several years.

And America’s gold-standard national election surveys show a similarly sharp decline, with non-white proximity to Democrats now at its lowest since the 1960s, before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election which aligned Black voters with the Dems and against the GOP

So the non-white shift away from Dems seems very real. But what’s driving it?

One factor is fading memories. The civil rights movement and 1964 realignment formed very strong political bonds for the people who lived through it, but this is less true for more recent generations. 

The bond between young Black Americans and Democrats is far weaker than among older cohorts.

I don’t think everyone appreciates that the familiar "young favour Dems, old favour Republicans" gradient we see in the US population overall is *inverted* among the Black population.

The oldest Black Americans, whose political allegiances were formed in the 1960s and ’70s, identify as Dems over Reps by a margin of 82%.

Among the youngest Black voters, who have grown up in a very different socio-political environment, the Democrat advantage is just 33%

The changing image of the parties regarding class and income is also a factor.

In 2020 the richest third of voters favoured the Dems for the first time, and the Republicans improved with the poorest. The GOP now appeals to working- and middle-class voters of all ethnicities

But fading memories and increased competition for working class votes are fixable problems.

As long as these voters’ values remain fundamentally aligned with those of the Democratic party, the right person, policy, or rhetoric can win them back.

However… 

Much more ominous for the Democrats is a less widely understood dynamic:

Large numbers of non-white Americans have long held much more conservative views than their voting patterns would suggest.

Their values are very much *not* aligned with the party. 

To show you what I mean by that, I will refer to the brilliant work of @IsmailWhitePhD and @ChrylLaird, whose 2020 book Steadfast Democrats explores why Black Americans historically voted Democrat in such large numbers *despite* often holding very conservative views.

Take deeply conservative positions like support for gun rights, opposition to abortion or the belief that government should stay out of people’s lives.

Very few white voters with these views identify as Dems, but much larger shares of Black, Latino and Asian conservatives do.

This anomaly has historically given Dems a huge boost, but it has begun to unwind.

In 2012, the vast majority of Black conservatives still identified as Democrats, but that has since fallen to less than half. Latino and Asian conservatives show similar but less sudden trends

Once you realise this, the Dem -> Rep migration among non-white voters that we’ve seen in recent years becomes not so much a case of natural Democrats drifting away because they’ve become disillusioned, but natural Republicans realising they’ve been voting for the wrong party. 

We can also use this chart, which I adapted from White & Laird and @PatrickRuffini’s excellent book Party of the People.

It shows people’s self-reported political views from left to right, and their Rep-Dem margin top to bottom

Liberals vote Dem, conservatives vote Rep. Simple.

Except here’s how it actually looked in 2012: white voters were very well sorted, matching ideology to voting patterns

But Asian, Latino and especially Black voters were misaligned, with large numbers of non-white ideological conservatives voting Democrat in that year’s election

But just look at the realignment since then:

Latino conservatives are now a very solidly Republican group, and Black conservatives favoured Republicans over Democrats for the first time in 2022.

All groups are increasingly matching vote choice to ideology.

So you can see the problem for the Dems.

The non-white voters they’re losing are conservatives.

They won’t be won back by a bold green policy or defunding the police. Their historical support for Democrats was an anomaly and a further rightward shift is as likely as a reversal. 

So this explains the big shifts we’re seeing, but why is the racial realignment happening *now*?

@IsmailWhitePhD & @ChrylLaird find that social pressure is key.

When everyone around you votes a certain way, you feel pressure to do the same. Political norms are hard to overcome 

In a brilliant piece of research they found that when Black voters with very conservative views have almost exclusively Black social groups, they still vote Dem.

But if they have a more mixed social group, the weaker norm for voting Dem lets them vote in line with their beliefs.

I’ve extended their analysis and I find the same thing, with a similar effect among Latinos.

When people have more diverse social groups, there’s less social pressure to vote for the dominant party in the community, so non-white conservatives feel they can vote Republican.

There are echoes of Britain’s Red Wall — the English communities identified by @JamesKanag which had conservative demographics and attitudes but had stopped short of voting Tory due to a long-held sense that the party was not for them. In 2019 that changed

Non-white Americans are in a similar position.

Strong community norms have kept them in the blue column for decades, but those forces are weakening.

The surprise is not so much that these voters are shifting their support to align with their beliefs, but that it took so long. 

So you have: • Decline of church attendance (key source of political norm policing) • The US becoming more racially mixed, less segregated, fewer people with no friends/family of other races

The friction preventing non-white conservatives from voting Republican is diminishing. 

And crucially, that weakening of political norms doesn’t only come from people of other races.

As the number of Black Republicans has risen from ~5% to 15% (the figure among young Black adults today), the Democrat-voting norm is eroded and the stigma of voting Republican reduced 

This can happen very quickly in a “preference cascade”, where people who previously masked their true feelings to fit in, start discovering that other people actually share their beliefs, so suddenly lots of people shift their behaviour at once (screenshot from @PatrickRuffini)

And ‘a rapid shift in [voting] behaviour as people who were previously masking their [political] beliefs discover that others hold the same views as they do’ fits well with these charts.

Viewed in this light, the size of the shifts in current polling is entirely plausible.

To be clear, nothing in politics is guaranteed to last.

Some shifts are temporary, and many of those deserting the Democrats will become swing voters rather than solid Republicans.

These people can be won back and should absolutely not be written off. 

But if you take one thing away from this thread:

The left’s challenge with non-white voters is much deeper than it first appears.

A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems. 

And here’s my column in full:

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Prediction: Trump is elected, and the media blame white Americans, rather than the Dems or the arrogant assumption that non-white people would always vote for them.

#party politics #Democratic Party #Republican party #US elections #black voters #hispanic voters #asian voters #racial realignment #US politics #religion is a mental illness

[kylakitty123]

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#politics #georgia #democracy #democrats #liberals #black lives matter #black voters #equity #america #idk how else to tag this #signal boost

[ourquietman]

In election after election, the African American vote has been fool’s gold for the Republican Party. The problem is not that there are no Black conservatives; in fact, there are many. It is that the GOP, broadly, has faced African Americans with cluelessness or outright hostility. When Republican officials such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis try to censor African American history so that no one feels uncomfortable, or when GOP candidate Nikki Haley insists that “America has never been a racist country,” the party’s credibility among Black voters tends to evaporate.

Eugene Robinson in THE WASHINGTON POST

#donald trump #republicans #republican party #black voters