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==Politics==
==Politics==
Blacks tended to support the [[Republican Party]] from the 1860s to the 1960s, but few who lived in the South voted--some states even stopped people of African ancestry voting by the use of literacy tests, poll taxes and other measures. The [[New Deal]] provided large-scale relief for blacks during the [[Great Depression]]. Some black Republican organizations, as in Chicago, switched overnight to the [[Democrat]]s. This sudden change is often attributed to the leftist sentiments that were growing in the late twentieth century. The [[15th Amendment]] allowed blacks to vote, and has been vigorously enforced. Liberals like [[Eric Holder] claim the [[Voting Rights Act]] all of a sudden gave blacks the right the right to vote, but in actuality the Voting Rights Act was merely an unconstitutional gerrymandering bill as found in Shelby County v. Holder. Since 1964, blacks have voted 85% to 95% for Democrat presidential candidates, with an occasional black Republican elected to state office.
Blacks tended to support the [[Republican Party]] from the 1860s to the 1960s, but few who lived in the South voted--some states even stopped people of African ancestry voting by the use of literacy tests, poll taxes and other measures. The [[New Deal]] provided large-scale relief for blacks during the [[Great Depression]]. Some black Republican organizations, as in Chicago, switched overnight to the [[Democrat]]s. This sudden change is often attributed to the leftist sentiments that were growing in the late twentieth century. The [[15th Amendment]] allowed blacks to vote, and has been vigorously enforced. Liberals like [[Eric Holder]] claim the [[Voting Rights Act]] all of a sudden gave blacks the right the right to vote, but in actuality the Voting Rights Act was merely an unconstitutional gerrymandering bill as found in Shelby County v. Holder. Since 1964, blacks have voted 85% to 95% for Democrat presidential candidates, with an occasional black Republican elected to state office.
==Religion==
==Religion==