Steeped! Great descriptor! And yes, time. In Political Science 101 one learns that most people's politics are the politics of their parents. Most blacks, particularly in the south, don't have a tradition of politics or voting, mainly because for hundreds of years and dozens of generations political activity was, at first illegal, and then when legal, was deterred through violence like lynching.

Heck, there are still sundown towns in Lousiana. Hell, I am old enough to have had great uncles and grandparents that lived and worked on Louisiana sugar and cotton plantations. Yes, I am that old. And yes, people were still on plantations nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.