S M. Ross was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. She attended the University of Akron, where she met her husband. They have two children. She is a middle school Social Studies teacher. They currently reside in Katy, Texas.

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Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology Should African-Americans remain loyal to the Democratic Party?

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African-Americans have been loyal to the Democratic Party since the administration of FDR. Their loyalty came in response to the overhaul of the Republican Party for the sixty years following Reconstruction. Instead of continuing to support Republicans, the newly enfranchised black voters became disillusioned and forgotten under the weight of Jim Crow and Plessey vs. Ferguson, a court case which legitimized the "separate but equal" mantra.
As immigrants came to New York and settled across the nation, southern black migrant workers came to the North and the dynamics of political loyalties s...

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