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Check the stats again, Robalaam, and pay attention to my wording in the edit summary. The Northern black vote went 2/3 - 3/4 for the Dems between 1934 and 1962, and from 1964 onwards was around 90% Democrat.
President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. [[Theodore Bilbo]] "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.<ref name="segregationinamerica.eji.org">https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>
Franklin Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, founded by Roosevelt in the 1920s before he became president, maintained a Whites-only admission policy. This discrimination was sustained by a [[scientific]] argument about polio itself - that Blacks were not susceptible to the disease.<ref>''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/#!po=67.8125 Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes]'', Naomi Rogers, PhD. American Journal of Public Health, May 2007.</ref> The center continued to practice [[racial discrimination]] into the 1960s until it was finally struck down by a federal Appeals Court ruling and changes made in the [[Civil Rights Act]].
