text: If it were true that the Democratic Party is operating as a Southern Plantation with masters and slaves, wouldn't African-American voters abandon it?  If it were true, it would be very easy for the Republican Party to change its implicitly racist Southern Strategy to a new Southern Strategy, rewarding African-American votes with jobs, education, and programs.  It hasn't done so, presumably to avoid alienating its base, evangelicals and less educated white people, especially in the South, who the Republican Party itself has treated as closet bigots, justly or not.
  
  I agree that the majority of Americans are hungry for change, although Americans disagree widely about what that change should entail - progress or a return to the past.  That is just one of the reasons for the drastic political and social polarization we see among our citizens today.
  
  Speaking of "bound to Wall Street", the New York Times last week published a list of Trump's economic advisers; billionaires and bankers all.