If there are not that many black people as some of you are stating, then why do these politicians go so hard to try and get the black vote?
If the number is really as small as it is then I wouldn't even waste my time/money trying to pander like these politicians do.
Remember in that movie Free State of Jones where the blacks were fighting for the right to vote? The scene showed all the 100s of blacks dropping their ballots in for the Republicans then when all the votes for both parties were tallied they said the Republicans only received 2 or 3 votes. Numbers have been tampered with/not reported for centuries in our history.
And maybe the population numbers are not being directly tampered with/changed, but there is no way they are accurate. I have heard this 13% population number since I was a kid and it still has not changed. How Sway? I am not going off of data or anecdotal evidence like most of you in this thread are. I am just using common sense and logic.
Y'all have got to understand how powerful a psychological edge is. If I want to remain dominant, the first thing I will have to do is convince those I want to rule over that they are inferior. Force them to believe they are incredibly outnumbered so if they do decide to fight back, they will be met with excuses by their own people that "We are severely outnumbered, there is no chance."