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

[Dorene Cornwell]

Actually, I think several of us have said in different ways that class may
be as important as race in analyzing who voted for Prop 8. Doug said it with
polling data.  That was part of the thrust of my point about gay marriage
displacing borader healthcare reform after Democratic victories. It makes
sense to me that people who feel economically vulnerable are likely to cling
firmly to things such as marriage that buffer them from uncertainty, It's
still the job of the pro-marriage forces to make the case of what's in the
deal for working class voters--either that or just keep chaing polygamy in
the same sentence with Mormons and see waht that does for the pro-prop 8
funding stream.

I would not know whether  working class African Americans are more or less
likely than working class people of other hues to have recent rural
connections, but I do not think that is particulary a guess one even needs
to make for this argument.

DC

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


> At 11:29 AM 11/14/2008, Chris Doss wrote:
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> 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.
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> That's pretty much what you said yesterday:
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> 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?
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> 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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