Blacks tend to go democratic about 90% of the time. Other minorities like Latinos, LGBT, agnostics/atheists, Muslims, Asians, etc all peak at about 60-75% democratic support.
The modern gop is fairly hostile to many minority groups, so why do blacks oppose them more than other minorities like Latinos, gays or non Christians?
They moved towards the Democrats because of Lyndon Johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1965, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
They moved away from the Republicans because of the Southern Strategy, Richard Nixon, and pretty much every damn thing that the Republican Party has done since 1964.
In the early '60s there were plenty of black Republicans, but as the Republicans have become more conservative, they have also become more racially hostile, specifically to black people.
You don’t see Democratic politicians, for example, defending the Confederate Flag as part of a legitimate heritage to be honored.
You don’t see Democratic candidates for president, for example, giving speeches in support of states rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Every time a Republican says “states rights” out loud, he or she might as well be saying “fuck black people.”
Muslims/Arab-Americans have gone just as strong for Democrats since 2004. In 2000, Bush actually wooed them and courted their vote. Living in Dearborn, I remember my Arab friends were enamored with Bush leading up to the election, leading up to 9/11, immediately after 9/11. They loved him. Then over time, that bloc shifted very quickly to the Dems, and it shows no sign of letting up.
Here’s a good article (from an old co-worker of mine!) today in Politico describing how the Arab-American vote shifted so rapidly in less than a decade.
This year, they’re not as happy with Hillary (a lot of the Muslim/Arab-American vote went to Bernie in the primary), but they sure as hell aren’t voting for Trump. This campaign will push them even further into the Dem camp and probably solidify a relationship that may last generations.
My guess is that compared to the other groups mentioned (Muslims, Asians, LGBT people, etc.) that black people as a whole are disadvantaged not just by racial discrimination but by also tending to be poorer. The other groups might experience racial discrimination, but they are not on average as economically disadvantaged as black people. This double whammy of being on the bottom rung both racially and economically is probably why black people probably trend so highly Democratic.
The level of support for Democrats among Black demographics is of no surprise, for many reasons as addressed above.
What surprises is that the margin among some other groups is not as large. Clinton’s lead among Hispanics, for example, has grown to a 48% margin from 26% in May but you still have 18% of Hispanics stating they prefer Trump. That compares to numbers like 4% of the Black demographic who prefer Trump in the recent Fox poll.
Hispanics are demonized by Trump much more than are Blacks and the party as a whole has been no more welcoming to them.
So why do they not reject Trump to the same degree?
I think it’s also, at least partially, due to the unique nature of the discrimination faced by black people through American history, and the unique nature of their struggle for Civil Rights.
This is what I don’t get. Why do latinos and LGBTs seem more comfortable with the GOP than blacks? Is the GOP hostile towards blacks? Yes, it is also hostile towards LGBTs and latinos. However blacks are about 90% democratic, latinos and LGBTs are closer to 70-75% democratic.
I’m not saying they should vote democratic or republican, I just do not understand why one persecuted group is more likely to side with the party mistreating them than the other. Republicans have made a big showing of mistreating LGBTs over the last 15 years.
As others have said, it could be because blacks also have more economic issues on top of the social oppression which adds to their political bias. There are a lot of upper middle class white LGBTs, maybe they disagree with the GOP on social policy but agree with them on economic policy.
Blacks probably suffer from more discrimination than any other group in America. So it makes sense that they would see discrimination as a bigger issue than other groups do. And the Democratic Party for the last few decades has been the party which takes a more active stance in opposing discrimination.
You can’t tell by looking at somebody that they’re gay or Jewish or transgender or Muslim. Even Hispanic people can often go unnoticed.
So while people in these groups may face some discrimination, it’s not as ubiquitous. They can walk down the street or shop in a store or drive their car without people treating them differently.
But black people are always black. They always have other people reacting to them as being black.
When you talk about groups, what do you mean?
Hispanics are especially prone to point out that they are an extremely diverse collection of small groupings, many of them not just very different from one another but actually antithetical. Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Colombians, and a hundred others. Cubans are notoriously Republican because of their extreme anti-Communism stance. Puerto Ricans were concentrated in New York and the northeast, and had experiences unlike those of Mexicans in California.
Asians are equally diverse. Chinese are not Japanese are not Korean are not Filipino are not Laotian.
Muslims are also equally diverse. LGBTQ come from every background. So do atheists.
BTW, so do whites.
Blacks, by comparison, share to a disproportional degree a common background and a common heritage of discrimination. They are the only grouping for whom the making of grand generalities isn’t wholly stupid.
You can make broad arguments. People who do not fall into the camp of white, married, heterosexual Christians tend to identify with the Democratic party. Those who do fall into that group identify with the Republicans.
Hispanic households, on average, are wealthier than black households (though not remotely near white households). I think you also have a lot more recent Hispanic immigrants who embrace the patriotic rah-rah side of Republicanism, have images of hitting the American Dream and who comes from nations with failed socialist style governments. You also have the religious aspect and its social conservatism although I think this is overrated by a lot of people but I’m sure it helps push the numbers a little. GOP dreams that Hispanic Catholics will flock to them once immigration is off the table aren’t going to be realized, however.
Since Nixon, the GOP has been nakedly hostile to black people. The Southern Strategy explicitly courted white racists and people routinely scream the word N***er! At Trump rallies when Obama’s name is mentioned. Why on earth would black people find any of that attractive in a political party?
What is this “marginalized” business? Non-majority woulda been a better term; in every country and society, non-majority members have it harder than majority members. That’s wrong, but that doesn’t mean “marginalized.” Also, how are Asians “marginalized?”
But to the OP, its because since they endured the worst of discrimination, they ran hardest to be with the party that opposed the most vocal opponents of civil rights, like Goldwater and Wallace. Some of it is also both the issue of poverty and discrimination.
Part of the problem with this question, (and it tends to plague all similar discussions), is that the word “Hispanics,” based on ancestral language, is a single word used to identify multiple cultural and political groups in the U.S., many of whom share few similar views. It is rather like the occasional errors in assumptions when the word “Christians” is used to identift Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians, ignoring the fairly wide gaps in shared beliefs between those on the Right and Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, etc. (There are members of each denomination on the far Right, but to lump all those groups under the banner “Christians” leads to failures to understand that, for example, more than half of Episcopalians and Catholics began accepting the concept of Same Sex Marriage a decade or more before the country, as a whole, swung that way.)
The Cuban émigrés, gathered in, but not exclusive to, Florida have been staunch Republicans for years, deeming the Democrats too conciliatory to the Castros. Trump has not attacked them, focusing on “Mexicans” (even if a large number of the people he so identifies are Columbians and immigrants from Central America south of Mexico).
Puerto Ricans, while sharing similar views to people with ties to Mexico and points south are not in lockstep with those folks and also produce different numbers when looking at various issues.
Blacks are always black, they don’t have the luxury to be white. White LBGTs, White Hispanics and even some Asians (who often consider themselves white) are part of the ‘club’. What this means is that when Republicans display hostility towards Latinos, LGBTs, and so on, those who feel they are in the club don’t feel they are speaking about them…it’s those ‘others’.
For example, Cubans don’t consider themselves to be the same as Mexicans. So when the Republicans display hostility towards Latinos (immigration), Cubans may not consider themselves as the targeted audience. This is true especially if they view themselves as being ‘white’ and having a different immigration and assimilation experience, than other Latinos.
Black people on the other hand (not all of course) may feel that no matter how much money, education or social standing they have, they are still black and are subject to whatever issues still plague black people in the country. For many of them, there is a clear line in the sand regarding which group is they feel currently is actively trying to hurt them.
For example, recently there is an issue with the NC voter ID, due to the Republicans being accused of using voter ID as a means to deny blacks the right to vote. This is an issue that is trigger in the black community and plays into the narrative that the Republicans are against Black people. Add the GOP’s support of State’s Rights, unquestioning loyalty to the police, the rise of Trump, the disrespect of the first Black President, all reinforces the belief whether real or imagined, that currently the Republicans are not supportive and in fact are destructive to the black community as a whole.
I think viewing this as a by-product of economics, misses the historical and societal issues that has shaped the relationship blacks have with the Republicans since the 1960’s. There are plenty of well-off black people, who despite their wealth and social standing, give their sons the same ‘talk’, poor black folks do.
62% of American Hispanics are of Mexican heritage with the next biggest being 9.5% that are of Puerto Rican heritage. I can see one arguing that Cuban Americans are a different (and GOP leaning) demographic … but they are only 3.7% of the American Hispanic population. (Albeit of outsized impact in FL.)
Sure the Hispanic population is not a homogeneous group, but neither are American Blacks. Urban and rural, Northern and Southern, older and younger, many ways to subdivide and come up with “few similar views” … but they share not voting for the GOP candidate very often at all.
FWIW my WAG is that there is a larger subset that is more religiously conservative and more towards single issue on some conservative religious items (and not all Catholic; there has been strong growth of Evangelicalism in Hispanic communities). The Church is often a major social glue within some Black subcultures but is less often on the same page in terms of items like abortion and imposing religious majority religious values onto all.
I’m thinking a person who has Salvadoran or Guatemalan ancestry would not consider themselves to be Mexican. And they would know that Mexicans don’t consider them to be Mexican. They might even be hostility between them and Mexicans.
But this same person is going to be aware that when somebody like Trump is complaining about Mexicans, he’s not thinking “But just the Mexicans. Those Salvadorans and Guatemalans are okay.” Somebody who’s bigoted against Mexicans is likely going to lump all Hispanics together.
Black Republicans are the best recruiting tool for the Democratic Party.
Look at the most prominent ones. With the exception of Colin Powell and Condelezza Rice, they tend to be some variety of laughing stock.
I think many black folks actually have a conservative bent, just because of the religion piece. But it’s hard to get behind a party that courts factions who are “anti-” you. Black people tend to live in cities, so if you expect them to get behind a candidate who thinks real Americans only live in small towns and suburbs, then you’re going to be disappointed. Many black people are sympathetic towards poor people’s issues, even when they themselves aren’t poor (because many of us were brought up in poverty, or by parents who were themselves brought up in poverty). So don’t expect them to line up behind a candidate who hates the poor. And black people, even socially conservative ones, tend to have a healthy distrust of institutions. So if you have a candidate who favors eliminating federal oversight and regulation for the benefit of individuals’ pocket books, don’t expect black people to sign up en mass. Because that sure sounds like, “Let’s go back to Jim Crow, ya’ll!!”
This, i think, is the main correct answer.
To be a little silly, OP’s question is almost like asking “Why do major league baseball players earn higher salaries than minor league players?”
(OP is sentenced to five hours watching appropriate YouTubes and reading magazine articles to see how deep discrimination against blacks still is in America. 
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