20% of Blacks voting GOP? That hasn’t happened since the 1920’s. If he gets 5% it would be a political earthquake.
“20% of Blacks voting GOP? That hasn’t happened since the 1920’s.”
Actually, blacks stayed loyal to the GOP a lot longer than that. FDR was the first Dem to attract any significant numbers away from the Republican party. That was turbo boosted by LBJ with his huge welfare programs of the sixties.
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, all the old folks in my family voted for ‘the party of Lincoln’. A lot of the younger folks did, too.
Nixon got 28% of the black vote in 60.