I don’t know what the Democrats promised blacks for the 1936 election that totally and permanently reversed their entire voting history, how do you reach such a large racial group in such a manner, and so effectively, and reaching them all simultaneously?
I keep meaning to delve into it and see what I can put together, I will do that at some point.
In the meantime, people should be aware of it, it is the biggest voting block story in our history and no one even knows it happened.
It is a fascinating topic, as you say. Herbert Hoover won the black vote handily in 1932, despite losing the election disastrously, and FDR studiously avoided civil rights issues so as not to rile racist Southern Democrats, much to the chagrin of Eleanor Roosevelt and others who wanted action there. All that only makes the Republican-to-Democrat turnaround in the black vote from 1932 to 1936 more surprising, and I’ll be interested to see what you find!
The dhims know. They are setting US up for a two fer!
>> I don’t know what the Democrats promised blacks for the 1936 election that totally and permanently reversed their entire voting history<<
It was FDR’s New Deal. It was high taxes on all but huge giveaways to the poor. It set maximum hours worked, minimum wages and lots of help for the poor.
It hurt the blacks a lot because when the TVA was set up it took huge tracks of land that had been black share croppers who didn’t get anything for the land but set them up as wards of the state basically.
Do a search and learn as much as you can about the New Deal and how it really hurt the blacks and why Obama has FDR as his hero. Both FDR and Obama will hurt the minorities more than any other group ultimately.