Americans vote for a party, not a race

One of the motivations behind the US Voting Rights Act is the implicit assumption that you need majority black electorates for blacks to get elected. Basically that whites will vote for a white candidate and blacks for a black candidate.

Well in Virginia, there was a white candidate and a black candidate for Governor. The polls shows that 89% of black voters were voting for the white candidate and 54% of white voters were voting for the black candidate. They voted for the candidate based on their party, not their race.

Of the 60 black members of the House of Representatives, only around a third come from majority black districts. Almost a quarter come from districts where blacks make up under 30%. So there are many examples of white voters voting for black representatives.