Widdekind
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According to H. Paul Jeffers' The Great Depression, during the Great Depression, racial tensions coincidentally flared in the south, leading to a wave of lynchings, on the eve of the election of FDR, who (with his wife) was much more accommodating to black Americans, e.g. FDR had an unofficial "Black Cabinet". In the 1932 elections, blacks turned to the Democrats, and voted for FDR. So, the economic calamity of the Great Depression, and racial violence, happened to benefit the Democratic party, including FDR ?