True-blue voters should look to Congress to help them get out of the red
African Americans are the Democratic Party’s best friends. Between 1968, the year of Martin Luther King Jr’s death, and 2006, they have been voting “blue” at rates mostly over 90 percent. Democratic leaders earned their trust during the Civil Rights Movement, demonstrating that they were willing to use the powers of their offices to change the laws to narrow the gap between whites and non-whites. In 2006, 71 percent of Latinos also went “blue.” ...