Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

===Early political views===
Rice was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] until 1982, when she changed her political affiliation to Republican, in part because she disagreed with the foreign policy of Democratic President [[Jimmy Carter]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Balz |first=Dan |title=The Republicans Showcase a Rising Star; Foreign Policy Fueled Rice's Party Switch and Her Climb to Prominence |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 1, 2000 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/08/01/the-republicans-showcase-a-rising-star/430295bb-7c08-4c39-b7ab-36a0a3de8c57/ |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022954/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/08/01/the-republicans-showcase-a-rising-star/430295bb-7c08-4c39-b7ab-36a0a3de8c57/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Maki |last=Becker |title=20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/04/04/2004-04-04_20_things_you_probably_didn_.html |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |date=April 4, 2004 |access-date=November 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211065013/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/04/04/2004-04-04_20_things_you_probably_didn_.html |archive-date=December 11, 2008}}</ref> and because of the influence of her father, who was Republican. As she told the [[2000 Republican National Convention]], "My father joined our party because the Democrats in [[Jim Crow]] Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did."<ref name="rice at rnc">{{cite news |last=Rice |first=Condoleezza |title=Text: Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ricetext080100.htm |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 1, 2000 |access-date=October 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926004241/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ricetext080100.htm |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>