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Originally Posted by Azure
The bigger issue is that people are constantly trying to label voters into groups, and that clearly is being rejected here. How many times have we seen the whole 'Trump supporters are all racists' being thrown around here on CP? Is that the perception? Or actual reality?
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I don't know, Trump's support among black voters is pretty normal. The Obama elections were the outliers if anything. Here's the % of the black vote that Republican presidential candidates have gotten since 1980:
1980: 14%
1984: 9%
1988: 11%
1992: 10% (plus 7% for Perot)
1996: 12% (plus 4% for Perot)
2000: 9%
2004: 11%
2008: 4%
2012: 6%
2016: 8%
2020: 12% (based on NYT exit polls)