I guess it just doesn’t occur to them that they could vote Republican. The Democrats have been in control of their neighborhoods for generations now and nothing has materially improved for them (except that they get more free stuff). Even electing a black Democrat to the Presidency has not improved employment in the hood. Nevertheless the Democrats have clearly succeeded in thoroughly discrediting the Republican Party in the eyes of the African-American community , such that there appears to be little the Republicans can do to persuade blacks to switch their vote. Certainly the GOP can’t out Santa Claus the Democrats.
Jacksonville, Fla. — During those two electric Novembers, the chance to elect a black president, and then keep him in office, seized Regenia Motley’s neighborhood.
Nightclubs were registering voters. Churches held fish fries after loading buses that ferried parishioners to the polls. A truck hoisted a big sign that said “Obama.” And residents waited in long lines at precincts across the community.
But as Motley and some friends sought shade recently under a mulberry tree and looked across the landscape of empty lots and abandoned houses that has persisted here, they wondered whether they would ever bother voting again.
“What was the point?” asked Motley, 23, a grocery store clerk. “We made history, but I don’t see change.”
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