Both Joe Donnelly in Indiana and Claire McCaskill in Missouri, who had shown appeal to these voters earlier in their careers, each carried only about on -third of them while losing their Senate seats to Republican challengers. ... Conversely, despite the Democratic gains in Southern..…

These negative indications were even stronger in the high-profile gubernatorial races in Florida and Georgia, each narrowly won by a right-wing white Republican who faced a left-wing black Democrat. In the past a matches along such racial and ideological lines in Southern states would have..…

When former Confederates still tried to hang onto white supremacy, the Republicans backed the Fourteenth Amendment, which tried to protect black rights, forced southern states to let black men vote, and declared birthright citizenship. . When Georgia nonetheless threw out black legislators,..…