Identity Politics: Priority #1 with Democrats.

[wildchild]

Democrats value identity politics above all else. This is how you get people like Rachel Dolezal and Elizabeth Warren. Honorable mention goes out to Open Borders 'Beto' O'Rouke.

Women's March in California canceled over concerns it would be 'overwhelmingly white'

The post was met with a mix of responses, with some thanking the group for its decision and others expressing frustration and calling on organizers to change their minds. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ia-canceled-over-concerns-it-would-be-n953281

Hundreds of thousands march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington.Bryan Woolston / Reuters file


Dec. 31, 2018 / 11:07 AM CST
By Daniella Silva

A California Women’s March was canceled because of concerns that its participants have been “overwhelmingly white,” the march’s organizers said.

Organizers announced Friday that the Women’s March would not take place in Eureka, in Humboldt County, California, on Jan. 19 as previously planned due to issues of representation.


“Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community,” a post on the march’s Facebook page read. “Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take time for more outreach.”

The decision was made after conversations with local organizers and supporters of the march, according to the statement, which was posted by Facebook user Beth Ann Wylie.

“Our goal is that planning will continue and we will be successful in creating an event that will build power and community engagement through connection between women that seek to improve the lives of all in our community,” the post said.

The group may hold an event in March around International Women’s Day, according to the post. The Eureka group does not appear to be an official chapter of Women’s March California.

The post was met with a mix of responses, with some thanking the group for its decision and others expressing frustration and calling on organizers to change their minds.

U.S. Census Bureau data from July estimate that Humboldt County is more than 74 percent non-Hispanic white.

The move comes after Women’s March Chicago said it would not be marking its third year with another march. The group said in November that because of the time, money and effort spent into an October March to the Polls event ahead of the midterm elections that it would not be hosting another march in January.

The October march drew an estimated 100,000 people to Grant Park in Chicago, the group said in a statement on Facebook.

Instead, the group said Saturday it was celebrating its third anniversary by calling on people to "spearhead an action in your community that helps people feel safe, included, respected and represented, while encouraging others to activate."

Millions of men and women across the world have turned out for Women’s Marches over the last two years, but even from its inception there were questions about its racial representation and inclusiveness.

As the national Women’s March organization prepares for its third round of annual rallies in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. it has been rocked by divisions within the broader movement.

The leadership of Women’s March, Inc. has been roiled in controversy over its ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and claims of anti-Semitism.

The Chicago march said in a follow up post on its Facebook pagethat the decision not to hold back-to-back marches was made last spring and was not based “on the actions or activities of any other organization — including Women’s March Inc.” The group has previously highlighted that it has never been affiliated with Women’s March, Inc.

Teresa Shook, one of the original founders of the national Women’s March, called for Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, the national co-chairs of Women’s March, Inc., to step down.

Shook said in a post on Facebook in November that the co-chairs “have steered the Movement away from its true course.”

The group has said it rejects “anti-Semitism in all its forms.”

“We want to say emphatically that we do not support or endorse statements made by Minister Louis Farrakhan about women, Jewish and LGBTQ communities,” the group said in a post in November.

Daniella Silva
Daniella Silva is a reporter for NBC News, specializing in immigration and inclusion issues.

The republicans are certainly screwed up in a whole host of ways, but how could a white person ever stomach voting for what the democrat party has become. They hate white people and dont mind showing it either.

 

[CaptainObvious]

 

[UsualName]

The republicans are certainly screwed up in a whole host of ways, but how could a white person ever stomach voting for what the democrat party has become. They hate white people and dont mind showing it either.

non-college educated white men and women are less likely to vote for democrats compared to republicans. I guarantee you’re not college educated or you would know why college educated whites are shifting to democrats.

 

[TJustice]

1. I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than I.
2. College men were also less likely to vote for democrats.
3. Overall yourpoints were virtually meaningless.
Democrats have moved to the left abandoning whites...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-the-nation-got-there/?utm_term=.22613ea8ecb3

This is politically important because the average white voter is more economically conservative and more socially liberal on issues such as abortion, gay rights and so on than the average nonwhite voter. (This varies by education level, as I’ll discuss below.)

[White people grew more conservative — and Republican — as they moved up economically]

As the ratio of nonwhites to whites has increased, an increasing proportion of whites are now “right of center” on economic issues and “left of center” on social issues. The growth of the nonwhite population has pulled the overall median away from the median white citizen’s position — on both social and economic issues.

Taking advantage of these demographic changes, the Democratic Party has courted and won more votes from ethnic and racial minority groups. However, at the same time, in response to these demographic changes, more whites have shifted rightward on economic issues.

I built an index that combines individuals’ positions on a number of survey items and reduces their answers to one summary measure of economic liberalism. I found that 58 percent of whites were to the right of the median in 1972 — but that had become 65 percent in 2016.


How Democrats are planning to take back power

With Democratic optimism on the rise for a "blue wave" in 2018, here's their strategy for winning more state and national seats than Republicans. (Joyce Koh/The Washington Post)

As most whites shift rightward, they perceive the Democratic Party to be shifting leftward
I used the American National Election Study data to show that many whites view the Democratic Party as moving further away from their own positions. This is true both when whites are asked to assess the positions of the parties generally and on a variety of specific issues such as government-sponsored health care and the government’s role in providing employment.

My research suggests this combination of political “sorting” and changing white perceptions of the Democratic Party has resulted in an almost eight-point swing in white vote choice. That lines up well with actual vote returns. White votes were split between the two parties about 50-50 in the 1970s — but in elections since 2000, that has become closer to 60-40 in favor of the Republican Party. Democrats might be gaining more votes from Latinos, Asians and other emerging demographic groups, but they are losing whites as a result.

Furthermore, the demographics of the white voters who are likely to support Democrats are different from the white voters who supported the Democratic Party in previous decades.

Most notably, while the Democratic Party is winning a lower percentage of whites overall, a greater proportion of college-educated whites are voting for Democrats. Attitudes on social issues in particular have become stronger predictors of voting behavior in recent elections; economic attitudes have become more important, too, but were already quite a strong predictor to start with.

The Democratic Party is increasingly a coalition of professional-class whites and members of ethnic and racial minority groups. Overall, the Democratic Party has made inroads among socially liberal whites while losing social and economic conservatives.

These changes have altered the Democratic Party’s prospects in presidential elections. While Democrats might be winning more college-educated whites, members of that group often live in states that are already heavily tilted toward Democrats. Whites without college degrees make up a large proportion of voters in many critical swing states in the Upper Midwest — the very states Trump was able to flip from blue to red in 2016.

Thus the Democratic Party is not simply winning a lower proportion of white voters; the whites who are getting more likely to vote for Democrats are less helpful in carrying the electoral college.

The decrease in white support for the Democratic Party is one of the most important trends in U.S. politics. This shift in white voting behavior is the result of changes of the parties’ positions and the country’s demographics.

Joshua N. Zingher is an assistant professor of political science at Old Dominion University whose research focuses on mass political behavior, elections and representation.

As far as education... I will bet you do not have a higher level of education than I at an accredited U.S. University.

How much would you like to bet?

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non-college educated white men and women are less likely to vote for democrats compared to republicans. I guarantee you’re not college educated or you would know why college educated whites are shifting to democrats.

 

[destriero]

1. I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than I.
2. College men were also less likely to vote for democrats.
3. Overall yourpoints were virtually meaningless.
Democrats have moved to the left abandoning whites...


How much would you like to bet?

"Than me"

Your grammar is that of an 8yo.

The vast majority of uneducated males vote GOP. You don't understand demographic trends. Post-grad males vote overwhelmingly DEM.

 

[UsualName]

1. I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than I.
2. College men were also less likely to vote for democrats.
3. Overall yourpoints were virtually meaningless.
Democrats have moved to the left abandoning whites...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-the-nation-got-there/?utm_term=.22613ea8ecb3

This is politically important because the average white voter is more economically conservative and more socially liberal on issues such as abortion, gay rights and so on than the average nonwhite voter. (This varies by education level, as I’ll discuss below.)

[White people grew more conservative — and Republican — as they moved up economically]

As the ratio of nonwhites to whites has increased, an increasing proportion of whites are now “right of center” on economic issues and “left of center” on social issues. The growth of the nonwhite population has pulled the overall median away from the median white citizen’s position — on both social and economic issues.

Taking advantage of these demographic changes, the Democratic Party has courted and won more votes from ethnic and racial minority groups. However, at the same time, in response to these demographic changes, more whites have shifted rightward on economic issues.

I built an index that combines individuals’ positions on a number of survey items and reduces their answers to one summary measure of economic liberalism. I found that 58 percent of whites were to the right of the median in 1972 — but that had become 65 percent in 2016.


How Democrats are planning to take back power

With Democratic optimism on the rise for a "blue wave" in 2018, here's their strategy for winning more state and national seats than Republicans. (Joyce Koh/The Washington Post)

As most whites shift rightward, they perceive the Democratic Party to be shifting leftward
I used the American National Election Study data to show that many whites view the Democratic Party as moving further away from their own positions. This is true both when whites are asked to assess the positions of the parties generally and on a variety of specific issues such as government-sponsored health care and the government’s role in providing employment.

My research suggests this combination of political “sorting” and changing white perceptions of the Democratic Party has resulted in an almost eight-point swing in white vote choice. That lines up well with actual vote returns. White votes were split between the two parties about 50-50 in the 1970s — but in elections since 2000, that has become closer to 60-40 in favor of the Republican Party. Democrats might be gaining more votes from Latinos, Asians and other emerging demographic groups, but they are losing whites as a result.

Furthermore, the demographics of the white voters who are likely to support Democrats are different from the white voters who supported the Democratic Party in previous decades.

Most notably, while the Democratic Party is winning a lower percentage of whites overall, a greater proportion of college-educated whites are voting for Democrats. Attitudes on social issues in particular have become stronger predictors of voting behavior in recent elections; economic attitudes have become more important, too, but were already quite a strong predictor to start with.

The Democratic Party is increasingly a coalition of professional-class whites and members of ethnic and racial minority groups. Overall, the Democratic Party has made inroads among socially liberal whites while losing social and economic conservatives.

These changes have altered the Democratic Party’s prospects in presidential elections. While Democrats might be winning more college-educated whites, members of that group often live in states that are already heavily tilted toward Democrats. Whites without college degrees make up a large proportion of voters in many critical swing states in the Upper Midwest — the very states Trump was able to flip from blue to red in 2016.

Thus the Democratic Party is not simply winning a lower proportion of white voters; the whites who are getting more likely to vote for Democrats are less helpful in carrying the electoral college.

The decrease in white support for the Democratic Party is one of the most important trends in U.S. politics. This shift in white voting behavior is the result of changes of the parties’ positions and the country’s demographics.

Joshua N. Zingher is an assistant professor of political science at Old Dominion University whose research focuses on mass political behavior, elections and representation.

As far as education... I will bet you do not have a higher level of education than I at an accredited U.S. University.

How much would you like to bet?

I’d like to bet you’re a moron. I win. You’re a moron.

 

[TJustice]

That is how democrats argue....
The drones go from from bullshit to ad homs.

I’d like to bet you’re a moron. I win. You’re a moron.

 

[TJustice]

For person withe pretentious boat name..

1. Proper grammar for anyone older than an 8 year old would be...

I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than I hold. *

you would never say..

I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than me hold.

*That is the way you test to determine whether you should write than me or than I.

So destriero whose writing I can not see in chrome because I think he blocked me or perhaps I blocked him got his correction ass backward. I would hope he would be mature and admit his correction and insult were misguided.

(Its possible than me would have worked... but it was not wrong to write "than I")



2. The rest of his comment was unnecessary as well. The point he made was already granted.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

For person withe pretentious boat name..

1. Proper grammar for anyone older than an 8 year old would be...

I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than I hold. *

you would never say..

I guarantee you do not hold a higher degree from an accredited US institution than me hold.

*That is the way you test to determine whether you should write than me or than I.

So destriero whose writing I can not see in chrome because I think he blocked me or perhaps I blocked him got his correction ass backward. I would hope he would be mature and admit his correction and insult were misguided.

(Its possible than me would have worked... but it was not wrong to write "than I")



2. The rest of his comment was unnecessary as well. The point he made was already granted.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

"than me hold"

WTF. Complete fail.

Frigging tards are beginning to talk like Tonto since Pocahontas announced.