Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump is just picking up on this thing that was already being shaped in that direction.
56% : This is why I talk about coalition merchants, that what they're selling isn't so much the idea that segregation is a problem or that we ought to have better labor regulations but, rather, that the people who care about those two things ought to be friends.
55% : To where we are now, where the successors to the people who are most concerned about ending segregation are all in the Democratic Party, and the successors to the people who are concerned about preserving it are in the Republican Party.
53% : And then, meanwhile, also in the Democratic Party now, especially in the North, both as African Americans move to the North -- and so there's a lot of Black voters that are in the North who are thinking about these things and having a different kind of influence on politics because they're in northern cities -- you have a lot of people who are in favor of government intervention for the less well-off, including people who are not white and maybe especially including concerns about race.
50% : I think that Trump himself just believes that this is whatever -- Trump seems often to bounce around.
48% : It's not literally wrong, but a more nuanced way to say it is that the southern coalition included people who were pretty comfortable with government intervention on behalf of the less well-off, as long as those less-well-off people were white.
48% : The Southern Democrats were in favor of and preferred to continue the legacy of segregation that comes back roaring after the end of Reconstruction.
47% : It's, like, this idea that there's a good kind of lie you should do to either pacify the population, or if you're trying to make sure -- a lot of people view Trump as a threat to democracy beyond the normal right-left thing -- and so the idea that you should just say whatever needs to be said in order to make sure that he does not end up in office, whether or not you believe that's true or not true.
38% : But how much of that argument do we want to give credit to Reihan Salam and Ross Douthat and the folks who have made that argument, and how much is it just, Well, Trump capitalized on this thing, and so now it's turning?
36% : Will J. D. Vance be the future of the Republican Party if and when Trump is no longer a figure?
29% : I think the big difference is that so much of what defined the Never Trumpers' attitudes about politics before Trump was some pretty conservative stuff that the Democratic Party isn't going to champion.
19% : After all, look at how Donald Trump easily disavows positions he held on the Affordable Care Act and Social Security, or how Kamala Harris has tried to shed all of her most left-wing positions taken in 2019.
18% : The interesting question would be: Let's say Trump loses in 2016.
17% : Trump really breaks this.

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