the thing is both of these are kind of interconnected as to why it might become a stronghold. blacks and other minorities typically vote for democrats at 90%. they're not a huge voting block and they're unreliable but they're enough to swing and hold tighter races. except this election trump is seeing the highest number of them breaking off to vote for him that he ever has, and the thing is it's been a consistent trend. every election he's performed better with those groups and even in 2016 he was performing better with them than romney was. now it's entirely possible this is just a trump thing. they do it for trump and go back to their normal behaviors just like they turned out en masse for obama but then stayed home for hillary but if the republicans play it well they may have broken lbj's curse.
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