pbrower2a
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« on: December 28, 2014, 12:03:41 AM » |
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The black vote has steadily drifted away from the Republican Party even as the black middle class has grown. Since WWII, the best year for the Republicans getting a share of the black vote was 1956 -- at 39%. That was probably for standing up to Southern segregationists. (Of course few blacks voted in the South, and if they had voted then in large numbers they might have gone more toward Eisenhower in 1956, giving him a 47-state or so landslide).
To give some idea of how the Republicans have failed to win over blacks -- Nixon got 13% of the black vote in his landslide of 1972, and Reagan got only 9% of the black vote in his landslide election of 1984.
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