Claims of unique Black political disunity are contradicted by actual voting patterns

Evidence

David Walker was hardly the first, and he was certainly not the last, Black activist to complain about political disunity as a uniquely Black problem—as if White abolitionists were not betraying White enslavers, and as if White people were more politically unified, and therefore superior politically and better able to rule. Voting patterns never did quite support complaints of Black disunity and White unity. In the late 1820s, Black male voters in the Northeast typically supported the fading Federalists, while White male voters were split between the two major parties. (Although the parties have changed, similar voting patterns persist today.) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 440

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the ‘Black disunity’ trope as an assimilationist move that survives in modern discourse despite contradictory voting data — a data-driven takedown along Kendi’s lines.
• QUESTION: The parenthetical claims similar voting patterns persist today — worth verifying and quantifying the modern analogue.