#specificallyTHIS is Civil Rights Republicans

Civil Rights Republicans:

• Frederick Douglas
• Susan B. Anthony
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• James Mitchell Ashley (He introduced the first bill which ultimately became the Thirteenth Amendment.)
• Abraham Lincoln
• Booker T. Washington
• John Bingham (He introduced the legislation which eventually became the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments.)
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Ida B. Wells (co-founder of NAACP)
• Henry Moscowitz (co-founder of NAACP)
• William English Walling (co-founder of NAACP)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/black-republicans-african-american-gop_n_1832892.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300432/party-civil-rights-kevin-d-williamson

#specificallyTHIS is U.S. homeownership

The U.S. homeownership rate is at levels last seen during the Johnson Administration.  The cornerstone of the American Dream is simply getting much more difficult to achieve.  There are many reasons for this but a large one is that home prices are inflated relative to what Americans are making.  If this were a real market, then prices would balance out.  But in a negative interest rate environment favoring banks easy money is used for investing purposes.  Big investors bought a large amount of inventory and now the market seems to be dry with inventory – yet rents and prices are up.  While the homeownership rate looks like this:

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source:
U.S. homeownership rate at lowest level since the Johnson Administration: Record low inventory and inflated prices keeps families from buying. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog