According to research at Yale University, white Democrats are every bit as racist as white Republicans, and in some cases even more so.
"... white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says economist Ebonya Washington of Yale University in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics... But racially motivated crossover voting is not just a Republican phenomenon. Democrats also desert their party when its candidate is black, Washington found. In House races, white Democrats are 38 percentage points less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301776.html
The orginal research can be found here: http://www.econ.yale.edu/ddp/ddp00/ddp0016.pdf
"However both White Democrats and White Republicans have a reduced likelihood of voting for a major party candidate when that candidate is Black."
"... white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says economist Ebonya Washington of Yale University in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics... But racially motivated crossover voting is not just a Republican phenomenon. Democrats also desert their party when its candidate is black, Washington found. In House races, white Democrats are 38 percentage points less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301776.html
The orginal research can be found here: http://www.econ.yale.edu/ddp/ddp00/ddp0016.pdf
"However both White Democrats and White Republicans have a reduced likelihood of voting for a major party candidate when that candidate is Black."
Quote from Artful D0dger:
No, it can't be, this must be a hoax. I mean, the Tea Party is racist. This must be a mistake. The Tea Party is largely comprised of southern white people, and they are all racists. This can't be accurate.
