Let me put this another way. My relatives in the Deep South (grandmother, grandfather, lots of aunts and uncles), in rural Arkansas to be precise, are deeply opposed to gay marriage. I would imagine that lots of black people are opposed for the same reason, i.e., THEY ARE BAPTISTS.
--- On Fri, 11/14/08, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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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