Black vote in 1952

[Oldiesfreak1854]

In 1952 Stevenson managed to win 79% of the black (or nonwhite) vote according to Gallup. Given that he picked a dixiecrat as his running mate and given that Eisenhower won in such a massive landslide i'm kind of surprised that he didn't do worse: http://www.gallup.com/poll/139880/election-polls-presidential-vote-groups.aspx

I knew Stevenson won the black vote, but 79 percent?  Isn't that better than Kennedy?  That number sounds artificially high.

Either way, blacks were becoming yellow dog Democrats even before LBJ signed the CRA.  So much for the liberal fairy tale about the two parties "switching sides" on race after that.