Your opinion is noted and expected.
It is completely expected that many liberal blacks would agree.
That fact that there was NO SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT in the voting numbers shows that your claim the if the GOP could change policy on "jobs" that that would be an "adaptation" that would make them competitive with the black vote
is wrong.
Show me where the economic situation in poor and minority neighborhoods improved under Reagans policies
Look. if Republicans want the minority vote they need to promote and identify specific employment they have brought to minority neighborhoods. Expecting poor people to buy the Republican "rising tide" and "trickle down" rhetoric is not going to work
Why?
If we had seen some movement on the votes of the Black
Middle Class, which grew nicely under Reagan, I would accept that as evidence that your idea that the Republicans could compete for black votes if they offered "jobs".
But nothing.
HUGE economic boom with vast improvements for the nation as a whole that led to a record re-election landslide and nothing from the Black community.
Why was the black community so out of step?
It's not like they weren't benefiting.
The good that Reagan did for black America | The San Diego Union-Tribune
"n fact, black social scientist Bart Landry estimated that that upwardly mobile cohort grew by a third under Reagan's watch, from 3.6 million in 1980 to 4.8 million in 1988. His definition was based on employment in white-collar jobs as well as on income levels."
"All told, the middle class constituted more than 40 percent of black households by the end of Reagan's presidency, which was larger than the size of black working class, or the black poor."