The cyclical nature of democracy means that right now, the influential senior vote is controlled by people from the 50's. That particular decade was marked by McCarthyism and an entire nation in denial. It was also the decade that directly preceded integration. As everyone can see by following current U.S. politics, much of the exact same 50's crap is happening today.

The good news is, that the 1950's people are almost dead. Once they are dead, the final remnants of segregated America will be dead with them. The following senior vote will be controlled by flower-power hippies, women's liberation feminists, and racial integrationists. It's somewhat of a tragic coincidence that the first non-white President was elected during a repeat of 1950's trash, but the end result will be an acceleration of the values that have shaped the United States since integration.

No amount of political support should be provided to the 50's people. Their politics, like their lives, will soon be at an end. It would be wise to shut them down in the following several elections, as a means of minimizing the damage their segregationist minds can still do.