An overwhelming majority of black women voted for Alabama Democratic senator-elect Doug Jones, exit polls from the election reveal.
Ninety-eight percent of black female voters in Alabama, who make up about 17 percent of potential voters, voted for Jones, data shows. A mere 2 percent of black women voters voted for Republican candidate Roy Moore, who was facing accusations of sexual misconduct with minors.
Black men also came out for Jones, with 93 percent of them voting for Jones and only 6 percent choosing Moore. Black men make up about 11 percent of voters in Alabama.
Jones ramped up his efforts to reach out to the black community, an important voting bloc, in the weeks leading up to the election. He began directly targeting the black vote with rallies in Selma, Ala, a crucial spot in the Civil Rights movement, and repeatedly highlighted his prosecution of two Klu Klux Klan members who bombed a black church.
Black congressmen also came out to support Jones the weekend before the special election. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker gave a few speeches on justice in order to rally the black community.
“When it comes to the long hard march toward justice, nothing is given,” Booker said. “King used to say that change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability. It has to be carried in on the backs of good folk. The opposite of justice is not injustice, it is indifference, it is inaction.”
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