Religion & Politics & Race | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: All Churches have dirty laundry. Lest we forget, in the segregated South, Catholic churches had a separate Communion rail for black parishoners - and heaven help the black boy who wanted to date a white girl, even if both were Catholic. MLK had it right when he said that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. All of this has nothing to do with who votes for Romney and Obama and why. If Romney had done what a lot of northern state Republicans did and switched to the Democratic Party in response to Nixon's Southern Strategy and its explicit racism, he might well have been elected as the Democratic President in 2004 with a large percentage of the black vote and health care reform firmly in place.
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