"The vast majority of Black people now vote for..."
when I should have wrote:
"The vast majority of Black voters now vote for..."
because as his been pointed out, correctly, in this thread, in the US, the majority are non-voters.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:25 AM, socialismorbarbarism
<socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The division by counties indicates the urban/rural divide is stronger
> than a state divide."
>
> Of course, there is even a stronger divide. Note the county map at the
> bottom of the page: There are startling streaks of blue in what looks
> like Mississippi and Alabama. Without checking any evidence, I will
> assert that these are these have a large Black population, or are
> Black-majority rural counties.
>
> Then again, I've heard the term "urban vote" already used as a
> crypto-euphemism for "Black"; "urban" already serves that purpose in
> the music and fashion industries.
>
> There can be no reasonably coherent analysis of the US electoral
> voting patterns without first accounting for racism. The vast majority
> of Black people now vote for the party that is perceived as less
> racist, and a certain percentage of the White population will vote for
> the party that is perceived as the party of White privilege, before
> any other considerations. The two parties then do their World Wide
> Wrestling-type fight over those who are left.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Barry Brooks <durable at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> This site has maps of the 2008 election results by county.
>> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
>>
>> The division by counties indicates the urban/rural divide is stronger than a
>> state divide. Even red states have blue cities.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
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