>>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?
The hypothesis is that white New Yorkers may have more in common with white Middle Americans than with Black New Yorkers, foreign-born New Yorkers (like Masuda Sultan, an Afghan-born New Yorker featured in the documentary _Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero_ <http://tv.oneworld.net/tapestry?story=358>), and native-born New Yorkers with foreign-born parents. -- Yoshie
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