Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory has switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and in so doing he becomes the first black Republican in the Louisiana legislature since Reconstruction.
He explained his decision in a video that has since gone viral.
While the senator may be 100 percent sincere in his views, party switching in general when it occurs across the country can be more about political expediency and careerism/opportunism than just ideology, especially if the politician is positioning him- or herself for statewide office.
You see it all over the tube, the Internet and virtually anywhere and everywhere an opinion is given.
Are Republicans, who have for years have been under the thumbs of one of the most powerful persons in Washington DC now starting to rebel against him?
