Blacks were Republican for generations. It wasn’t till the 60’s Civil Rights era that somehow the propaganda was that the D’s were the ones who made it all possible to eat in any restaurant, stay in any hotel,sit anywhere on a bus, or drink from any water fountain. All pure BS, but it’s been bought now for 40-50 years.
Middle class black family should by all rights be Republican. They tend to be more conservative than most whites on social issues, and increasingly on economic issues. It makes no sense for them to stay on the Dem plantation. If I were black it’d make me furious to have the likes of Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton appointed as my ‘spokesman.’
Actually it was FDR that bought them off first, they switched instantly.
In 1936, 71% of blacks registered Democrat and they stayed Democrat, reaching up to 77% and 76%, then in 1964 Johnson and his welfare plan jumped them to 94%, since then they have been mostly in the mid to high 80%s.
“Middle class black family should by all rights be Republican.”
Tell me about it. So should Hispanics (thankfully, some are). As I mentioned before, Democrats, represent a TINY FACTION of this country, when you look at value base - maybe 10%, at most. There is NO WAY they should have ever gotten this much power - but they did.