re: 2016 GOP nominee could get a third or more of AA vote

In 1956, Eisenhower won Louisiana. While the civil rights act was the final nail in the southern democrat coffin, I would argue that the solid south was beginning to show cracks even before that. Republicans lost the south in 1968 and 1976 as well. And reagan, in 1980, barely won southern states. It was amazing how the conservative icon, in 1980, won LA or SC or TN by only 1-3 points each!