[ansel12]

Black Americans have been voting heavily Democratic for almost 50 years

At some point we have to start calling writers that keep writing this myth as out and out liars.

The black vote switched to overwhelmingly and permanently democrat in 1936, there is no "almost" and there is no "50 years" and there is no "Kennedy" as is usually mentioned, or in this case, implied.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“The black vote switched to overwhelmingly and permanently democrat in 1936, there is no “almost” and there is no “50 years” and there is no “Kennedy” as is usually mentioned, or in this case, implied.”

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I thought that Eisenhower was still getting close to 40% of the black vote in the 1950s. DJ, is my recollection correct?

Yes, the New Deal saw black voters switch from overwhelmingly Republican to overwhelmingly Democrat (starting in 1934; in 1932 most blacks still voted for Hoover and reelected black Republican Congressman Oscar Stanton DePriest to his congressional seat in Chicago’s South Side), but the black vote did not become monolithic (85%+ Democrat) until the late 1980s IIRC.