Who won the black vote in 52/56?

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Any change as profound as African Americans going from the party of Lincoln to the same party as white segregationists is bound to happen gradually. Even if many blacks were frustrated with (and we don't really now that IMO) Hoovers sucking up to white Southerners, it would take a while for that feeling to translate into an actual shift of party giving the strong historical animosity to the Democrats. It is more surprising that such a high number of blacks actually voted for FDR in 1936. It is a tribute to just how hard the depression hit the black community, that so many of them made the change to the party of their oppressors so rapidly.

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But what's been said about 32 is true. The New Deal is what won Blacks over to the Democrats, not the Depression itself

True. But that kind of goes without saying. If FDR hadn't offered a solution to the problems caused by the depression, there would have been no point in switching to the Dems.

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But what's been said about 32 is true. The New Deal is what won Blacks over to the Democrats, not the Depression itself

True. But that kind of goes without saying. If FDR hadn't offered a solution to the problems caused by the depression, there would have been no point in switching to the Dems.

If other people hadn't switched earlier, though, there wouldn't have been no FDR.

I obviously meant no point of switching for blacks, who were firmly rooted in the Republican coalition and had good reasons not to trust Democrats.