BlackDemographics.com

[pnwmom]

Does anyone know whether this is a reliable site? It includes some positive comments supposedly from an Outreach director for Obama.

I found it when I was following up on something Recursion had said -- that African Americans tend to be more conservative than other groups of Democrats, which could explain why the community hasn't been that supportive of Bernie.

Anyway, it claimed that 44% of African Americans consider themselves moderate, and only 28% liberal. Maybe this is similar to the breakdown with whites -- I don't know.

But it might explain part of Hillary's appeal.

http://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/

It was the association of civil rights legislation with John F Kennedy and Lyndon Banes Jonson that solidified Black loyalty to the Democratic Party for good. JFK proposed and LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed public discrimination. LBJs Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, opposed it garnering Johnson 94% of the black vote that year, which was a record until 2008. Johnson later signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

By this time the majority of Blacks had become Democrats. By 2012 only 16% of African Americans considered themselves Republicans. Although 88% of African Americans voted for Democrat John Kerry in 2004, 44% consider themselves to have a moderate political viewpoint. Only 28% consider themselves liberal in their political views. Over the last 40 years Black Americans have consistently voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic presidential candidate. The most votes any Republican candidate received from Blacks since 1968 was Gerald Ford in 1976 (15%).

[Recursion]

1. 28/44 sounds consistent with the Household Survey

African Americans are the Democrats most likely to be in the South and most likely to go the church regularly, both of which correlate with a more conservative political viewpoint. The white numbers are IIRC 40% liberal, 40% moderate, and 20% conservative (or that ballpark); white southern Democrats (previously the most conservative Democrats) for all practical purposes no longer exist.

Note that if the site is using the Household Survey, that self-identification is not "checked" against any actual policy views; it just asks whether the respondent calls himself liberal, moderate, or conservative.

The survey itself is here: http://www.bls.gov/cps/

[pnwmom]

2. Thanks, Recursion.