not gonna lie, this improves my opinion of both blacks and democrats

It's fascinating to see on the macro level, but even on the state and local levels, it's a big, bright red alert for Democrats. They know full well that if even 5-10 percent of black voters jump ship for the GOP (or, simply, don't vote), there's not enough of a coalition between single women, college educated white men, and their smaller remaining share of Latinx to win elections. Coupled with the top third of earning Americans shifting Democrat, it's becoming clear there's a shift in the GOP that few are seeing. It's becoming a working person's socially conservative populist party.

So, I fully expect the Democrats to double down on anything to keep blacks and Latinx on team "vote blue no matter who." More ridiculous and pie-in-the-sky reparations talk, I presume.