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They helped create an influential black electorate and black middle class.
But North Carolina has a large, fairly well-educated black electorate.
Her presence on the ballot is expected to energize Mississippi's heavily Democratic black electorate.
Romney is indeed the black electorate's least popular Republican candidate ever, but by an even greater margin.
Political analysts at the time suggested that Mr. Thurmond, a staunch segregationist, backed Mr. Perry to win votes from a growing black electorate.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has taken up the cause, too, comparing Benton Harbor to Selma, circa 1965, because of the disenfranchisement of its largely black electorate.
"For a black politician to become a congressman or mayor, they have to have a base with a black electorate that has a very liberal agenda," she said.
In South Carolina, for example, where the Rev. Al Sharpton had been widely expected to do well among a heavily black electorate, he received fewer than 1 in 5 black votes, compared with just over 1 in 3 for Mr. Kerry.
But in Southern states with large black populations, like Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia, an energized black electorate could create a countervailing force, particularly if conservative white voters choose not to flock to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Many Brooklyn officials have accused Mr. Yassky of taking advantage of the fact that there are several black candidates in the race, raising the prospect that he could win against a divided black electorate.
