Election results since 2016 say otherwise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...t-polls/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c30bb3efc1a4
Jones benefitted from near-unanimous support from black voters, historically large support from whites
Fully 96 percent of African Americans supported Jones, similar to President Obama’s 95 percent support among this group in 2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/us/blacks-alabama-doug-jones-.html
Democrats Draw Vivid Lesson From Alabama: Mobilize Black Voters
By
JOHN ELIGON
DEC. 14, 2017
Amid the Democrats’ celebration over their success in turning out a huge number of black voters in the Senate election in Alabama, party leaders, activists and operatives are seeing a vivid message to increase outreach, mobilization and investment in minority communities.
In the wake of Doug Jones’s victory Tuesday over Roy S. Moore, some Democrats are making the case that the party erred in recent years by failing to put enough of its resources into engaging with black communities,
who helped produce the stunning upset in Alabama on Tuesday — and who turned out heavily in Virginia last month as well.