There's been only one real racial divide vote in this primary season and you're not sharp enough to even know what it is. (and I'm not talking about 85% of blacks voting for the half black)
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Drinking and feeling superior, eh?
LOL!
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Then:
<img src=http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/images/then_map_2.jpg>
and the 2004 election results:
<img src=http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/images/now_map_2.jpg>
In case it's hard to read, on the Pre-Civil War Map, the red areas were slave states and the brown areas were territories open to slavery, while the green areas were free states and territories. These distinctions eerily correspond to the red states vs. blue states on the 2004 Election Map ~~ i.e., the blue (Kerry) states correspond to the pre-civil-war free states and territories, while the red (Bush) states correspond to what were the slave states and territories. As one of my co-workers said to me, this might be the most "devastatingly accurate explanation I've seen for what happened on Tuesday." There's a little more discussion about all this, here.
http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/2004/11/free_states_vs_.html
Quote from Mercor:
Here is the true 2004 vote by county....Nothing like your maps........All the democratic voting is from a half dozen urban areas.
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Are the white republicans in the urban areas?
Or in the burbs...
This entire thread is so funny, in a tragic way.
The white republicans are gripping hard trying to tell people that they are not racist.
Yet, with very few exceptions, the white republicans vote white. Especially in the south.
Does this mean that there are no racist blacks? Nope.
Does this mean there are no racist white democrats? Nope.
Does this mean there are not racist Hispanics. Nope.
It really means that there is a whole lot of racism in America going on. We simply do not have real racial representation in D.C. We have a greater portion of racial representation on the democrat side, but from a % of black to blacks in elected power in D.C. we don't have racial representation for blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups. We have how many Jewish congressmen and senators relative to the percentage of the population of Jews in America? We don't have genuine racial representation, period.
The dems get the black vote. Why is that?
Do you think blacks are stupid? (Maybe you do) or do you think that they vote democrat because they think the dems will help them, that they agree with the democratic platform?
Unions have voted democrat, why? Because republicans want to end the unions.
Everybody has a political agenda here, and there is plenty of racism to go around, so this nonsense that republicans are not racist is ridiculous.
When the republican "way" demonstrates to blacks that their way is better, they will follow it.
When they see more and more black republicans rising to power, giving back to the black community, helping blacks with their problems...then the black community will be more open to black republicans.
We have not seen that yet, we have not even seen a trend in that direction. We see very isolated instances of black republicans in elected positions in D.C.
If the republicans really want to change the situation, to influence the black population, then vote in more black republican senators and black congressmen and congresswomen...
This denial however that there is racism among white republicans influencing the election of black republicans, especially in the south, is just ridiculous...