Buried in this NYT article on black Republicans running for Congress is a quote from Newt Gingrich explaining that with Democrats in the majority, Republicans are "pragmatically more open to a coalition" with African-Americans:
“Things have evolved,” said Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, who is heavily involved in recruiting Republican candidates. “I think partly the level of hostility to Obama, Pelosi and Reid makes a lot of people pragmatically more open to a coalition from the standpoint of being a long-term majority party.”
So the GOP is "pragmatically more open" to letting African-Americans in their party? My, how very grand of them. After all, it is the 19th 20th 21st century.