However, when Sen. Barry Goldwater vigorously opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ran as the Republican candidate for president, blacks became aroused and gave 95% of their votes to the Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, who then won in a landslide.
Since 1964, about 90 percent of black voters have cast their vote for the Democratic candidates for president.
Nonetheless, blacks turned out in force for a number of white Democratic candidates for Congress and president.
In 2016, the Republican Donald Trump won only 8% of the black vote.
According to a recent poll of African American voters by the African American Research Collaborative and the NAACP, 80% give Trump a negative rating in responding to the Covid-19 crisis that has so disproportionately inflicted suffering on blacks.
