AFRICAN AMERICANS AND POLITICAL PARTIES

Historically, it seems the Democrat party has been "home" to African-American voters, at least since the days of the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt. Yet, party leaders seem somehow loath to aggressively designate African-American voters. Some party leaders (unidentified in Frymer) "argue for downplaying the African American agenda and focusing on the white median voter" (Frymer 44).

African Americans may not be aggressively sought after because they don't vote in the same large numbers that white Jewish voters and senior citizens do. I see proof of that in the recent California recall election. While efforts were made by Jesse Jackson and others to get out the Africa

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