A couple of days after the 1994 elections, in which the GOP won the House and Senate for the first time since the 1950s, Newsweek's Evan Thomas mourned: "This is a rotten time to be black. Blacks are just going to take it in the chops."
And Thomas explained why conservatives fared well this way: "A lot of middle-class people thought they were taking my money and giving it to poor black people and they didn't like it."