As a reminder to the rare reader who hasn’t turned on the television for at least 72 hours, today is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Many commentators will write and have written about what this moment means to America and how things have changed, and haven’t changed, since that day.
Since this is a political blog, and I’m a political pollster, I’d like to look at something a little different than the typical analysis: how the politics of race have changed in the intervening 50 years and what that says about how the parties are positioning themselves today and might in the future. [cont.]
Chris Wilson, WPA Research