[lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 14 12:06:42 PST 2008


At 11:29 AM 11/14/2008, Chris Doss wrote:


>I would say it is a working class and rural exception. Plus, blacks
>tend to come from the South, at least a few generations ago. What a
>surprise that they would share values typical of the US South.

That's pretty much what you said yesterday:


>I'm going out on a limb here, but isn't it likely that black
>opposition to gay marriage being higher than that of whites
>(usually), at least in urban areas, is related to blacks coming from
>a more rural background 2-3 generations back in which the center of
>the community was the church?

I'm going out on a limb here to suggest it's likely you're running on your own steam on this. Did you get this from anywhere besides what you're sitting on?



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