Yeah, that all sounds really noble, yet it doesn't really mesh with the modern Republican party successes being built on the "Southern Strategy" which sought to attract white Democrats by playing on racial fears.
I mean that's a double whammy, the voters were previously democratic, putting them on the opposite side of your dichotomies, and various members of the Republican party are on record as using race as a wedge issue, trying to convince white voters that equality was not in their interest (which the chairman of the RNC later apologized explicitly for).
I mean that's a double whammy, the voters were previously democratic, putting them on the opposite side of your dichotomies, and various members of the Republican party are on record as using race as a wedge issue, trying to convince white voters that equality was not in their interest (which the chairman of the RNC later apologized explicitly for).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy