In the wake of Trump’s motorcade driving through the Atlanta ghetto - in order to film a few black people cheering for a conservative - we’re once again seeing a bunch of conservative talking heads rehash the same tired bullshit about blacks waking up to the corruption and degeneracy of the left. These pundits are claiming that black support for Trump is now at 20% and climbing!
Nonsense. The reality is that we have a cottage industry of black content creators, influencers, and reactors who promote conservatism not for a black audience but rather for a white conservative audience. Because white conservatives are absolutely terrified of being labeled racist, so black creators are ready to cash in with content that serves that demographic.
Blacks are never going to support republicans.
Utter nonsense. Besides Socialist ideology and Social Welfare programs being implemented in all majority white countries during the later part of the industrial revolution, you'd have to claim that whites in America weren't voting for FDR.
White southerners started moving away from Democrats because the Democrats had clearly abandoned the old Southern aristocracy with LBJ who was making a new coalition. They had a choice between Wallace style progressive racialism under a different banner; or Goldwater Conservativism (effectively: American Classical Liberalism). They moved steadily towards that because the past 100 years of Progressive Racialism hadn't basically led them anywhere. Embracing economic liberalism lead to widespread economic growth in the south that it hadn't seen since the ending of the Civil War.
Blacks (almost entirely living in the South), were already voting Democrat in the 30's because no Republican candidates were allowed to exist there. FDR recruited black Socialists among his coalitions, and he was the one who actually was the last straw to break the Republican hold on black voters.