Totally awesome, thank you for posting it! From all I've read that assessment is absolutely correct. I'm very angry with the Republicans In Name Only or RINOS who have betrayed conservative limited government, prudent fiscal spending principles and have sided with leftist Democrats who are currently deliberately destroying the US.

Yes, that history is correct. The fork in the road which separated the Republicans from the black community came when the Democrats began buying their votes with welfare. Republicans wanted everyone to succeed or fail on their own ( as misguided as that may be). Republicans believed in the individual. They still do.

Democrats think minorities, all minorities, can not survive on their own, that they are mentally inferior to white Europeans. Being so deprived intellectually by G-d, the white man must be taxed to support their lessor brothers. This is the Democrat's thinking today. That's why we see Democrats raising taxes, increasing all welfare payments and instituting new programs, putting as much control in the hands of government as possible.
My position is: "Get the government out of my way! I can and will do it myself!"

Lincoln’s third term?

History can be slanted depending on who is telling it. You guys left out why it was shifted.   

It really wasn't until Teddy Roosevelt took office upon the assassination of William McKinley that the black shift toward the Democratic Party began. For the most part, Teddy Roosevelt was still the staunch friend of the black man that his GOP predecessors had been; exploiting them, yes, but in return for the occasional carrot dangling from his big stick.

One of the worst mistakes Pres. Teddy Roosevelt ever made was in discharging three companies of black soldiers following the notorious Brownsville Affair of 1906 without trial or hearing. These soldiers were not only kicked out of the Army but were denied their pensions and benefits. Booker T. Washington was moved by this outrageous miscarriage of justice to call TR to bear for being cruel and unjust despite believing him to be fair and reasonable.

Worse than Teddy Roosevelt, however, was the fattest man to ever live in the White House, William Howard Taft. Taft was perhaps the closest thing to a purely racist President the US has ever seen. He strongly urged the purging of blacks from positions of influence within the Republican Party as he sought to make the GOP-in his own words-a "lily white" organization. Fat Willy Taft even undid one of the greatest tools the GOP had for holding onto their strong black base: he removed African-Americans from federal jobs and replaced with white people who very often had far less ability.

It was the last great white hope of leading African-Americans of the day that Woodrow Wilson would put an end to the racist policies of Roosevelt and Taft. Wilson was seen as a highly educated, very intelligent and progressive man and such leading African-America lights of the day such W.E.B. DuBois strongly supported Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Unfortunately, what DuBois and others failed to appreciate is that despite his having been President of an Ivy League college, Woodrow Wilson's heart belonged to Dixie. Wilson had been born and raised in the heart of the slave-owning, rebel-flag waving, KKK-electing south: South Carolina. Progressive though he may have been, he had still been raised in an area where the prevailing ideology was still one that looked back fondly upon the pre-Civil War days.

During Woodrow Wilson's term, all agencies of the federal government as well the buildings in which they were housed were fully segregated. When confronted on this issue by black delegations Wilson confirmed the worst fears that African-Americans had about the new Republican Party. Wilson's words echoed throughout the next decade until another Roosevelt came along to effectively pinch the black vote from the Republicans for good: Segregation may be imperfect, but it is the best way to avoid friction between the races. That theoretical construct would raise its ugly head for the last time in the 1950s and by then the Republicans had already all but lost any claim to its legacy as the party of Lincoln.

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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/150699/how_the_republican_party_lost_the_support_pg2.html?cat=47