I didn't say that they were brainwashed. I said that they were socialized. I meant that if you come from a society in which the church and what it says are important -- which I imagine would be especially the case for blacks given the church's role in the civil rights struggle and the REVEREND King -- you are likely to take what the church says seriously. On things like gay marriage or abortion, for example.
Which isn't to say there aren't lots of other factors. I think this is kind of obvious though. To me anyway.
--- On Thu, 11/13/08, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
in the CA gay marriage vote, Latinos supported the ban at 53%, blacks at 70%. Black women higher than men; higher income black women highest of all. it's more than just religion. more than just education, as Keith Boykin pointed out in that article. Moreover, when considering the very large difference between, for example, the Latino vote v the Black vote, what you (not you, you, but generic you) end up saying is that, somehow, blacks are magically brainwashed by their church. They completely lack the ability to look arond them and realize there are other views other there, apparently.
In FL, btw, the highest black support for the ban was among 30-45, hardly an age group that lacks exposure to issues. They had slightly more support than older blacks. Considering that blacks in FL are largely concentrated in urban areas and didn't (by and large) participate in the rural south to urban north migrations youre' talking about, my guess is that there is much more at stake in terms of black identity than simply attributing it to ignorance, brainwashing, or age.