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Most historians agree that after the Civil War, the black vote was strongly Republican in memory of President Abraham Lincoln. According to the experts, even in the depths of the Depression, a majority of black voters supported Herbert Hoover in 1932. The economic recovery programs of FDR gained the support of black voters, and in 1936, for the first time, black voters supported the Democratic ticket, and have ever since. LBJ, a Democrat, pushed through many of the civil rights and ‘war on poverty’ laws we have today and cemented the black voters support of his party

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