Same with a lot of southern states. Louisiana, Tennessee, Carolinas, Georgia, Florida all have significant black and minority populations... My thoughts (strictly opinion from experience) is it's harder to get blacks involved I'm politics in the south due to obvious past history but also because so many more live in rural areas where in other parts of the country all the black populations essentially live in.urban areas..
In FL almost a third of our eligible male African American voters are banned for life due to prior felony convictions. Smoke a join at 17, never vote again. Its a travesty.
Even on the west coast, we have an easier time voting, but many black americans just believe it doesn't matter if they vote or not because nothing is going to change.
Preaching to the choir here. I'm from cincy which is ~50% black, I'm black, 29 y/o and the only one of my neighborhood friends to go to college, or even graduate hs in many instances. All of my friends and a lot of family oftentimes complain about the political situation but never vote believing their vote won't change anything. It really fucks with my head and is one reason I left before and will probably relocate again...
Yeah, but I'd be shocked if he had gone over 10% of the white vote there. I may be wrong, but it seems like racism never really died back there.
Alabama had to have a sort of "racist revival" to get back to the point it found itself at 2 months ago.
E: I think that's why you saw some black people vote for Moore. They have non racist but misguided white republican friends(You'd be surprised the contradictory beliefs you can hold if you never examine them.), and they probably assumed Moore was the same way.
You'll see interracial couples and groups of friends here if you just walk outside. There's no way they're all dems.
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They’re pretty similar. Alabama is over 30% black so it’s not like they’re staunchly different demographically.