Good points. Black voters actually switched to the Dems during the 1932 election of Franklin Roosevelt. President Herbert Hoover was the Donald Trump of his day (only smarter and without the insults) who alienated the black base of the Republican Party with a series of bad moves. He tried to turn things around when he ran against FDR, but by then it was too late. He was also pretty feckless when it came to the economy and Roosevelt actually criticized Hoover for too much government intervention. Once FDR came to office he created one government program after the other. Most failed, but several worked, like Social Security, the TVA and WPA. FDR himself was an anti-black racist, but his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was a white civil rights leader who was ahead of her time. Anyway, I digress.
