> Yup. It's not just a delusion or a con job - it's the deeply
> ingrained common sense of a very large part of the U.S.
> population. Nonhispanic white men - 36% of the electorate
> - went for Bush by 18 points. Nonhispanic white women -
> 41% of the electorate - went for Bush by 4. Some of this is
> class interest - a third of the electorate had incomes above
> $75,000. But below that, as they say, it's gods, guns, and
> gays
No, once again, the operative word here is "white."
If God and gays (less so with guns) were the issue, Bush would have done substantially better among blacks and non-gusano Latinos than he did. I don't want Doug or anyone else to take this the wrong way, but I think it's a sign of unexamined "common sense" on our part when we don't acknowledge the simple yet overwhelming explanatory power of this very white elephant in the living room.
The people who voted for Bush think they were voting on faggots and fetuses, but the only reason they get worked up about that stuff in the first place is because they are so out of touch with the real issues of the real world. Which is to say, it's the sort of impulse that only white people actually indulge at the ballot box.
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