Because I know you guys love reality, and only fail to understand it because you didn't really take the time to look...but were intending to in some distant future...here's reality...
There was a big move to Democratic voting in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, and another in Lyndon B. Johnson's.
Blacks mostly voted Republican from after the Civil War and through the early part of the 20th century. That's not surprising when one considers that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, and the white, segregationist politicians who governed Southern states in those days were Democrats. The Democratic Party didn't welcome blacks then, and it wasn't until 1924 that blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity. Most blacks lived in the South, where they were mostly prevented from voting at all.
The election of Roosevelt in 1932 marked the beginning of a change. He got 71 percent of the black vote for president in 1936 and did nearly that well in the next two elections, according to historical figures kept by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. But even then, the number of blacks identifying themselves as Republicans was about the same as the number who thought of themselves as Democrats.
It wasn't until Harry Truman garnered 77 percent of the black vote in 1948 that a majority of blacks reported that they thought of themselves as Democrats. Earlier that year Truman had issued an order desegregating the armed services and an executive order setting up regulations against racial bias in federal employment.
Even after that, Republican nominees continued to get a large slice of the black vote for several elections. Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956, and Richard Nixon got 32 percent in his narrow loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960.
But then President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (outlawing segregation in public places) and his eventual Republican opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, opposed it. Johnson got 94 percent of the black vote that year, still a record for any presidential election.
The following year Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. No Republican presidential candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the black vote since.
Black Voting Patterns
And their data is derived from the Joint Center for Political And Economic Studies.
See that 94% by Lyndon? He was a white Texan for god's sake, and they voted for that good ol boy.
The Republican party haven't offered the African American community much of anything of value to them since Lincoln. What would be the motivation to vote for them? Because they're dingy enough to believe that if their bootstraps weren't broken, they could lift themselves up???
Even with military personnel historically being more conservative in any society, African Americans in the military would still be voting Democratic because no Republican candidate has ever shown them, after the party fought the Voting Act, why blacks should vote for the Repubs.
And the last two presidential elections were classic cases of voter suppression affecting the black communities disproportionately, and the hubbub the Repubs are stirring up now about ACORN, a community action network that fights for black concerns, only cements in people's minds that the Repubs are not so interested in registering black people to vote, and thereby empowering black communities...they're far far more interested in blacks proving they're legally voting.
What possible reason would a community of identity have to support a party interested most in their disempowerment?
So the racist stuff?? That relates to people thinking blacks should vote Republican because so many whites do....
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