I'm married with two daughters and have been teaching political science in a red state for 19 years. My blogging covers a lot of issues but I'm a progressive kind of guy who tends to focus on political process, conservatism, and religiosity. Living in the Bible Belt gives me a little different though not necessarily more friendly perspective on conservatism. I also get in the occasional sports post.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
The Republicans: a White People's Party
My crude math indicates that 96% of the Republican vote came from whites. That makes the Republicans a white people's party. That's not the same as being THE white people's party. Making up almost 75% of the population, whites were also 64% of Obama's vote. But Obama's support came from a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition. McCain relied almost entirely on the white vote.
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