Not exactly, we all recognize your narrative, but it doesn't explain, "why only blacks" and why did blacks quit voting like Protestants?
>> we all recognize your narrative, but it doesn’t explain, “why only blacks” and why did blacks quit voting like Protestants?<<
Only blacks? I don’t think it was only blacks nor is that what I said. I said “predominantly blacks” and I believe that to be true. The blacks had for years and years been controlled to the extent that they were allowed to make very few decisions for themselves. When they were freed they left with very few resources including the experience or knowledge of how to exist in a free enterprise world.
Because it was the Republicans who were predominantly the cause of the end of slavery they, the blacks, were “beholden” to them. But when FDR during a severe downturn in the economy promised to develop a system of help for the poor, the blacks and other poor, overwhelmingly supported the “hope and change” attitude that FDR preached. It ultimately hurt them by developing that old slavery mentality of not having to depend only on themselves which persists still today. Not just among the blacks but many of the poorer class.
As for the Protestant supposition, I don’t think ones faith is the only criteria. You can look in many Protestant communities and find those who vote Democrat. Some because they, under a false sense of guilt, think the “helping the poor” mantra of the Democrats is a good thing regardless of their ethnic background. That should not be a responsibility of the government but should be the responsibility of the Church. I think when one is poor the hope of help overrides their faith to a certain extent. That could be, and I believe is, the reason that the poor, with the black community being a large percentage of that population, turned to the Democrats who promised hope to them. It was at that point that the class of dependence on government became entrenched in the Democratic party.