How black Republicans are debunking the myth of a voter monolith

For Brad Mole, venturing into Republican politics didn’t start with a sudden awakening to conservatism. It was his religious upbringing and way of life that brought him to the Republican party.

“My faith pushed me more toward policies that better reflected my upbringing,” he said. “I began understanding that the teachings I was raised with were more reflected in a party that not many around me identified with.”

The son of a preacher in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina, Mole is now taking his politics a giant leap forward,...