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- leopardsatemyface
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- leopardsatemyface
The bitter fight between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds over a line about slavery in the state’s revised African American history standards is infuriating several prominent Black conservatives.
The GOP is 90% white.
There are about 170M registered voters in the US. Roughly 1/3 identify as R which means roughly 53M Americans. Even if 89% are white, that’s still close to 6 million non white Republicans out there. That’s not an insignificant number of people. Especially when you consider that GOP actively votes against these groups.
For anyone else who’s curious, it’s a google-able question, and closer to 80%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/26/what-the-2020-electorate-looks-like-by-party-race-and-ethnicity-age-education-and-religion/