Americans of African descent voted overwhelmingly Republican from the end of the Civil War to the 1930’s, but became almost totally Democrat by the 1970’s. No single event brought about this tectonic shift, but the change in black voting patterns began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the depression, Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps (“CCC”) gave starving men work, food and shelter. My father, a black American, lived and worked in a CCC camp for six months, and he