The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called 'Soul City'

 But there was a time when Republicans took diversifying their base much more seriously. In the early 1970s, even President Richard Nixon’s administration, with its uniquelyconservative, “law and order” bent, experienced what Ohio State University professor [and Demos Fellow] Devin Fergus calls “paroxysms of progressivism.” Such progressive spurts from the Nixon administration were responsible for producing the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water Act—and Soul City.