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Originally Posted by mineistaken
By the way why minorites love democrats so much? Does that mean that democrats goes for the poor/loser vote by promising them welfare, benefits, better standarts and stuff like that? Meaning that country would be better off under republican rule (that won't favor poor/losers that much as democrats)?
I am genuinely interested (as non American)
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There are far more white people who vote republican on Welfare than black people in this country.
The reason for the black vote is civil rights. Blacks slowly started switching over to the democratic party, but then Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that was big thing that changed black voters over to democrats. The year after the Civil Rights Act Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
In that election Johnson got 95% of the black vote (likely because Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act). Since then no republican candidate has ever gotten more than 15% of the black vote.