From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

For decades, Black Americans formed the backbone of the Democratic Party, voting by overwhelming margins for

Democratic candidates. And while a majority of black voters are expected to

enthusiastically cast their ballots for Kamala Harris. Polls suggest that support

for her might be softening, particularly among black men. The stakes of that

dynamic are highest in the swing state of Georgia, where in 2020,

black voters helped flip the state blue for the first time in decades,

and where this time Harris will need strong black turnout to win the state and with it potentially the presidency.

Today I travel to Georgia with daily producers Lindsay Garrison and Sydney Harper

to speak with one family whose experiences through the decades tell the story of the

relationship between Black Americans and the Democratic Party and why some are

beginning to question that relationship.

It's Thursday, October 31st.

A few weeks ago, we drove down to the southwest corner of Georgia,

toward the city of Albany.

It's a majority black city, and many families have lived there for generations.

Lindsay Garrison is going to tell the first half of the story.

For Irma Wilburn, before there was politics, there was segregation.

She was born in 1948 in Fitzgerald, Georgia, a small town not too far from Albany.

Her family worked for low wages,

harvesting tobacco, and collecting resin from trees

to make turpentine, and picking cotton.

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