The great *switch* is coming. Republicans have the most pro-Black platform (e.g. privatizing Social Security so that Blacks, who average living only to Age 61, can pass on to their heirs their SS money, which without Privatization wouldn't start paying out until age 65).
Republicans freed the slaves; Democrats went to war to stop 'em.
Republicans founded the NRA; Democrats passed the first gun control laws in the South to *prohibit* Blacks from owning firearms.
Jim Crow laws; all passed by Democrats.
Bull Conner, George Wallace, and the highway patrolmen who beat Blacks on the Edmund Petus Bridge in Alabama: all Democrats.
Republicans introduced and passed in the House and Senate the 1965 Civil Rights Act; Democrats filibustered against it.
Republicans appointed Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice; Democrats waged war against him.
Republicans appointed Powell, Powell, Paige, and Rice to top-level federal positions; Democrats can't even put two Blacks onto Senator Kerry's campaign staff (even Donna Brazille is left out in the cold in favor of lily-White shrum).
Democrats let lily-White Pelosi steal Black Harold ford's House Minority Leadership role.
Democrats let lily-White MacAuliffe steal Maynard Jackson's DNC leadership role.
Republicans favor faith-based charities; Democrats oppose them.
Republicans favor private scholarships for inner city minority youths; Democrats oppose them.
Blacks and Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-life; Democrats are officially pro-abortion.
As far as I can tell, the lone "issue" on which most Blacks and Republicans disagree is on Affirmative Action.
Frankly, that one point of contention is not enough to keep Blacks from choosing to become Republicans if we Republicans do a better job of selling our other positive issues.
The bumper stickers alone that I'm seeing here in Alabama show that a shift is coming.