> Oops. I wrote:
>
> "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.
There's a lemma: The vast majority of black people *don't* vote for X, for all X. It would not be too strong to rephrase this as 'The vast majority of back people vote *against* X, for all X' -- if you consider abstention a vote for 'none of the above'. As I do.
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