Who won the black vote in 52/56?

[Mechaman]

Actually, blacks were still strongly Democratic, if Wikipedia is correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_Coalition#New_Deal_Coalition:_voting_.25_1948-1964

According to this Blacks vote 79% Stevenson in 1952 and 61% in 1956.

So yeah, not really much effect amongst black people.

[Mechaman]

Herbert Hoover in 1932.

Really?

After the Southern Strategy in 1928?
I wouldn't be surprised if Al Smith won the black vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Southern_strategy

[Mechaman]

Hoover won 2/3rds of the black vote in 1932.  Blacks weren't especially put off by anti-Catholicism (in fact, they probably had a lower view of Catholics than WASPs).  It's also not like the Democrats had blacks in their Southern party organizations either.

It's not the anti-Catholicism I'm going off of (Catholics and African Americans were often on opposite political sides due to a deeply held animosity between the groups that dated back to the Civil War era), but the fact that Hoover encouraged stripping black Republicans of patronage in favor of the businessmen who made up the elite of the Republican Party.
Pretty much, Hoover gave them the finger in the hopes of appeasing Southern White Protestants.

Which is why I'm surprised he won the vote in 1932.