Long overdue. Should have happened after the Civil WAR.
That's absurd; after the Civil War the Republican party was, in the South, a black party. And it was held in power by the Union Army until a controvesrial presidential election resulted in a back room deal to discontinue it. Consequently the KKK suppressed the black Republican vote in the South, and the result was the solid Democratic South - in which the Democratic primary was the actual deciding election, and the general election was a mere formality. It has taken 150 years, but in the South the identities of the two parties have, in that sense, almost inverted.Martin Luther King was a registered Republican; in 1960 Nixon actually expected to be competitive for the black vote.