But there is another belt also worth keeping an eye on for its remarkable electoral transformation: The Black Belt, a series of counties with large black populations, that stretches from the Deep South to the Mid-Atlantic (Florida is not a Black Belt state.) standard-bearer, the Black Belt states in the Deep South also look shaky. The more black voters Clinton gets, the fewer white ones she needs. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday found that a measly 1 percent of registered black voters overall support Trump. That’s extremely problematic in states with high numbers of black voters.

Source: New York Times August 08, 2016 07:18 UTC