Let me address another piece of American history that progressive leftists and Democrats have deliberately obscured: the myth of the so-called “party switch.” As I explain in my book Outcast, available at Amazon, this narrative collapses the moment you examine actual history instead of repeating slogans.

Long before the Civil Rights era, Black political support had already begun shifting toward the Democratic Party. Under Woodrow Wilson—who was openly praised by figures like W.E.B. Du Bois—Black voters supported his presidency, only to watch him segregate the federal government, screen The Birth of a Nation at the White House, and preside over the renewed empowerment of the Ku Klux Klan. This wasn’t accidental; it was policy and posture combined. Violence and intimidation against Black Republicans by groups like the Red Shirts and White Leagues intensified under Democratic dominance, not Republican reform.

By the 1930s—decades after slavery and firmly within the Jim Crow era—roughly 35% of Black voters were already supporting Democrats. That fact alone dismantles the claim that the shift happened because Republicans suddenly became racist and Democrats suddenly became virtuous.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal marked one of the most consequential transformations in American history, but it came at a cost rarely discussed honestly. While sold as economic relief, these progressive, collectivist policies stripped Black Americans of economic agency, sidelined entrepreneurship, and entrenched dependency—often excluding Black workers from full benefits through discriminatory implementation. This wasn’t empowerment; it was political capture.

By the time Lyndon B. Johnson expanded the welfare state through the Great Society, over 60% of Black voters were already firmly aligned with the Democratic Party. If there was a “switch,” it wasn’t moral—it was strategic. Promises of government support replaced the earlier Republican emphasis on self-determination, property ownership, and enterprise.

The idea that Democrats suddenly became champions of Black Americans while Republicans became villains is propaganda—useful, persistent, and false. The truth is far less comfortable: Black voters were gradually absorbed into a political system that traded independence for dependency, agency for administration, and community strength for bureaucratic control. That history is rarely taught because it exposes patterns of power that still operate today.