“I grew up in an environment where we were just very much integrated, and life worked out really well,” Scott told reporters Tuesday. “I think the best for America is finding a way to fuse all of our communities together and erase all those lines that separate us.”

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California, who chairs the Black Caucus, said in a statement that membership in the traditionally left-leaning group “has never been restricted to Democrats.”

“Should either of the two African-American Republicans recently elected to the House of Representatives request membership in the Congressional Black Caucus, they will be welcomed,” Lee’s statement said.

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