The Public Interest

Black Republicans?

Abigail Thernstrom

Summer 1995

YOU’RE black, you’re middle class, and you live in an upscale neighborhood. Can the GOP hope to get your vote? And if not today, then perhaps tomorrow? That, in a nutshell, is the important question Michael C. Dawson addresses in Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics.

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