NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Black people vote Democrat. There are, seemingly, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

No Republican presidential candidate has received more than 40 percent of the black vote since 1936 . In 2012, 95 percent of black voters cast ballots for President Barack Obama. Two years later, in the midterm elections, only 11 percent of black voters identified as Republican -- the lowest percentage of any minority group, according to Pew Research Center .

The reasons for black people's deep allegiance to the Democratic party aren't complicated. Before 1948, African-Americans voted for Democrats about as often as they cast ballots for Republicans. But when Harry Truman called for new civil rights legislation -- including an anti-lynching law -- in 1948, black folks' identification with the Democratic Party started to take off. In 1964, that percentage of black Democrats skyrocketed thanks to the party's comparative support of the civil rights movement.

Yet despite the widespread assumption that black equals Democrat, The Huffington Post encountered quite a few black Republicans at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday and Friday who disagreed.

We asked some of the African-American participants -- still vastly outnumbered by whites at the annual conservative meeting -- to tell us what drew them to the GOP. Heres what they said.

Kira and Niger Innis