Jeb Bush Quotes
I don’t think that a party today can aspire to be the majority party if it’s the old white guy party.
He was referring to the then Republican party. When the original Republican Party was founded, it was the much more liberal of the American political parties. After Lincoln and Emancipation, the vast majority of Blacks supported the Republicans. Most feminists of the time were also abolitionists and also supported the party, as did the Hispanics. Most of the young people were Republican. The Democrats were an “old white guy” party/ Over the years the Republican Party grew more conservative, and after Democratic President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, almost all the racists in the country shifted from the Democratic party to the Republican and this alienated Blacks still further. The Republican Party opposed the Equal Rights Amendment and Affirmative Action, and then despite the efforts of President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain killed immigration reform which alienated most Hispanics. Women and youth shifted awar from the Republican party. Jeb Bush, who married a Hispanic and spoke Spanish fluently, also attracted women and many youth, but he was a Republican exception.
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (Republican), CNN The Situation Room, February 20, 2012
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The Nixon "Southern Strategy" was that if the Republican Party made extensive efforts to appeal to minorities, given the previous decades of support of white supremacy, they would only be successful with a few, whereas if the Party went in the other direction and supported the Whites fighting against the Democratic initiated, racist hated, Civil Rights Act, they would get almost all the racist Southern Democrats, which were most white males and many white females. This racist policy enabled the Republicans to gain control of the Federal Government more often than not whereas before, it was very unusual.
On why he joined the Republican party:
Billinghurst was physically handicapped without the use of her legs. She protested and marched in protest parades using a hand propelled tricycle which the police sometimes dumped her out of and left her immobile in alleys.
The Senator was trying to make a constructive criticism of his party’s outreach strategy. Their largest, most enthusiastic, supporter group was then the ‘angry white male’. Many Republicans advocated political strategies to appeal to them. Graham realized that they had to get beyond that demographic group in order to be a thriving political party in the future.
The Afrikaner’s were the descendants of the Dutch farmers who were the first white immigrants to South Africa. They ended up dominating the political scene of South Africa and other white minorities had little political power. The Blacks and Coloreds (Indians) had none in the Afrikaner Apartheid regime. This was a constant theme of the Afrikaners to the other White minorities that if the Afrikaner Apartheid and control of the Black majority, the other white minorities would suffer, This turned out not to be true however. When the Afrikaners were pushed out of control, Nelson Mandella led the Blacks to a non-vengeful creation of a new state, where most of the white minorities were reasonably happy except for some of the diehard Afrikaner racists. Botha was the political leader of the Afrikaners.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida's Secretary of Commerce until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
