Byron Donalds, Trump V.P. Contender, Suggests Jim Crow Era Had an Upside

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative -- because Black people have always been conservative-minded -- but more Black people voted conservatively.
56% : "You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together," Mr. Donalds said.
50% : At the event, Mr. Donalds said that the programs that followed the Jim Crow era of racial violence and segregation -- the federal government's welfare system during the 1950s and the civil rights agenda of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s -- had a detrimental effect on Black families.
40% : "Donald Trump spent his adult life, and then his presidency, undermining the progress Black communities fought so hard for -- so it actually tracks that his campaign's 'Black outreach' is going to a white neighborhood and promising to take America back to Jim Crow," Ms. Chitika said in a statement to The New York Times.

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