[lbo-talk] Prop 8 revisited

[Doug Henwood]

To re-open a can of worms, a paper co-written by my friend Ken  
Sherrill of Hunter College has just been released, explaining the  
California Prop 8 vote by demographics. It's at:

<http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/issues/egan_sherrill_prop8_1_6_09.pdf 

 >.

The relevant takeaway from the POV of the lbo-talk thread is that the  
black vote in favor wasn't statistically significant (in comparison to  
whites) after controlling for religiosity, but the significance re- 
emerges (significantly) if you additionally control for party and  
ideology. That is, religious blacks were no more likely to vote for  
Prop 8 than other religious people, but they were more likely to vote  
for it than religious white Dems/liberals.

Doug