>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.
And why is that? Are the nonwhite and foreign born any less New Yorkers than I am because I'm a white native? Why isolate the opinions of white native-borns for comparison? There were claims made about how "human nature" behaves under attack, and I think they're piffle.
Doug