EAN: 9783954893317

BLACKS IN THE NEW DEAL THE SHIFT FROM AN ELECTO...

No group of American minority voters shifted allegiance more dramatically in the 1930s than
Black Americans did. Up until the New Deal era  Blacks had shown their traditional loyalty to
the party of Lincoln by voting overwhelmingly the Republican ticket. By the end of F.D.
Roosevelt s first administration  however  they tremendously voted the Democratic ticket. The
decades long  wholesale attachment of Blacks to the party of Lincoln  with its laudable efforts
to support Blacks (Emancipation Proclamation and Reconstruction) was understandable and
inevitable enough. The anomaly was the massive shift by Blacks to the Democratic Party 
traditionally identified with its long list of constant anti-Black and premeditated opposition
to Black liberation: opposition to emancipation and Reconstruction  and with an ongoing record
of all forms of racial discrimination  segregation  disfranchisement  exclusion  white
primaries  and white supremacy. The transformation of the Black vote from solidly Republican to
solidly Democratic did not happen instantaneously  but rather it developed over decades of
maturing as a result of the amalgamated efforts of Presidents and Black leaders. The move of
Black voters toward the Democratic Party was part of a nationwide trend that had occurred with
the creation of the Roosevelt Coalition of1936. This national shift would make the Democrats
the majority party for the next several decades including a very decisive margin of Black
voters in the balance of power.

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