Like most black people, Wally’s large extended family favored the Democratic Party, the party that had supported the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. But the Halls had much in common with conservatives: they were churchgoers, gun owners, and entrepreneurs, and they knew the cost of nitpicky government regulations. In years past, some in the Hall clan had cast ballots for Indiana’s governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican. Yet the Halls could not abide Donald Trump.
