White males

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 14 16:10:49 PST 2000


Chris Burford wrote:


>Is it true that white males voted the large margin of 60% to 36% for Bush?

Yes.


>What does this say about their concept of themselves. Is it
>something about their idea of Americanness?

They think Bush is more likely to preserve their race and gender privileges than Gore would be. Why else?


>And if so why would Bush be considering bringing a black into his
>cabinet at the highest level?

Because white men are less than 40% of the electorate.

Doug



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