Party Switch Gives Louisiana First Black GOP Congressman Since Reconstruction

Fix contributor Ian Tuttle is currently interning at National Review. He reports this week on a great story out of Louisiana:

It takes a lot of courage for a black politician to rebuff the Democratic party, which has controlled upward of the 90 percent of the black vote in recent years. Louder applause, then, for Louisiana state senator Elbert Guillory, who switched parties on May 31, becoming the first black Republican in the Louisiana legislature since Reconstruction.

Read the full story at National Review Online.

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