...and yet I'm pretty sure Reagan did a good deal better among Black voters than Dole did.
He was probably the last President to benefit from older black voters still being loyal Republicans, a remnant of the pre-FDR days.
I'll never forget Condoleeza Rice's speech to the GOP convention in 2000. She said her father registered as a Republican voter (in Alabama in 1952) because the Democrats (i.e. segregationists) wouldn't allow him in their party. I never took her seriously after that idiotic statement.
