1972 black vote

[TheReckoning]

      One thing that’s important to remember is that at this time, the Southern black vote was less heavily Democratic than the Northern black vote. This was because black voters in the North at this point had been voting for Democrats since the New Deal, while Southern black voters had only started to vote Democrat since ‘64. This means that voting Democratic was already more established in the North by ‘72 than in the South, meaning that they got higher margins there.

     But I agree that I don’t see how Nixon could’ve gotten only 13% of the black vote whilst winning counties that were 70%+ black.