Why are most blacks in the Democratic Party?

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After two centuries of supporting slavery, then segregation and Jim Crow Laws and sending card-carrying members of the KKK to Congress, John Kennedy's support for civil rights suddenly made the Democratic party the champion of Black Americans.

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