Blacks might get quickly cured of their addiction in the South, because their love of Dems might be more based on living in blighted but densely populated coastal urban areas, than on the Dems’ questionable benefits to blacks per se. If you live in Detroit and there are no jobs, then food stamps, welfare, WIC, unemployment, rent subsidies, etc., are a lifeline, and you fear whites because you never meet any. If you live in Greensboro, NC, whites are your neighbors, their dialect is not dissimilar to your own, and it’s easier to start your own business, and thus resent high taxes. If you live in a rural area, gun control laws seem idiotic nuisances. If you live in Detroit, guns seem a dangerous menace, and you wish there was some way of getting rid of them. And so on and so forth.
Anyone who thinks that the North is less racist than the South, should remember the riots over school bussing in Boston in the 70s. Liberal northerners love blacks as long as they don’t have them for neighbors, or have one of them dating their daughter.
In the future, the emergence of solid black elected Republican officials in the South, such as the two new black congressmen, might help change things.