The Democrats only hope to keep these voters in line is to use every scare tactic in the book. This is one myth the media helps Democrats perpetrate as well. In the last few weeks alone, both the Washington Post and The Economist alleged that the Republicans have traditionally opposed civil rights legislation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Republicans in Congress actually supported the two most important civil rights bills on record, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in higher percentages than Democrats did.
Republicans are anti-poor.
Democrats have tried to pin this rap on Republicans since the 1960s, portraying Republicans as selfish and unfeeling and themselves as saviors of the poor. In fact, many of the Democrats favorite anti-poverty programs have done more to perpetuate poverty than alleviate it. Traditional welfare programs encouraged dependency and turned what should have been a temporary helping hand into a permanent crutch. Yet for decades, Democrats opposed even modest attempts to reform welfare programs. Then, President Clinton twice vetoed welfare reform legislation before signing it just in time to campaign on the issue during his 1996 re-election bid.