According to Census 2000, 27 percent of the population of New York City identified themselves as Black ("Census 2000 Supplementary Survey Profile: Population and Housing Profile: New York city, New York," <http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Profiles/Single/2000/C2SS/Narrative/160/NP16000US3651000.htm>). Census 2000 also tells us that 36% of New Yorkers were foreign born and that 48% spoke a language other than English at home (Andrew Beveridge, "Changing New York City," June, 2002, <http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/20020601/5/121>). My hypothesis is that Blacks, the foreign born, and native-born Americans who have foreign-born parents were on the average much less in favor of bombing Afghanistan in irrational response to the 9/11 terrorists, none of whom was an Afghan, than native-born whites who have lost all subjective bonds with their ancestral lands a long time ago. If a pollster compared native-born white opinions in New York City and the heartland, it is possible that there was little geographic difference. I recommend quotation marks around "we" in "We New Yorkers" pending further research. -- Yoshie
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