Howcome No One Ever Cites College Educated Blacks?

Or Single Latino Women? If they're going to start dividing us up even further (which everyone is brilliantly buying into) then why stop with just whites?


Edited: Sites to Cites in title. I'm hungover.

well, maybe I am, but if you're going to refer to college education in your title, you may wish to spell "cites" correctly. I assume the rest was just typos.

not site

To "site" someone is to put them some place, presumably a workplace. A citation is a quote.

There are a number of blacks who are not voting for him.

Who are they? Black women? Upper-income blacks? Blue-collar black men? College-educated blacks?

And how do those black people who are voting for him break down demographically? Are they mostly men or mostly women? How many of them are rural or suburban v. city-dwellers? What age ranges do they fall into?

Unfortunately, we don't know because the media never bothers to break down the demographics of black voters the way they do for white voters. They just lump them together as "black."

Edit: To remove mischaracterization of another poster's comment.

What the fuck?

I'd really like an apology for that comment.

I was clearly wrong. He took essentially 90% in both IN and NC, just as you said.

I, too, would be curious who that 10% might be.

When 91% of blacks vote for Obama, I don't think it makes much difference in the overall analysis whether the remaining 9% is women, old, young, less educated, etc. It just doesn't, other than as curiosity. Him winning 91% is all that needs to be said.

With winning 91%, it would be safe to assume that he wins a solid majority across age lines, gender lines, and education lines. There's no way to get 91% and NOT do that.

It is not some racially motivated media bias.

they're black. But I am interested in it, as are, I assume, many others who don't just assume that blacks are a monolith or that they think it's just "safe to assume" how blacks are voting.

I looked for it because I was interested.

Nothing wrong with that. All I'm saying is that from the standpoint of analyzing election returns and voting patterns, it is immaterial how the remaining 9% of black voters broke out in terms of age, sex, education, income, etc. It makes no difference in the analysis. Sure it would be interesting. But just because you find it interesting does not mean it's germane to the analysis.

And forgive me for saying so, but yes -- when a group of people (blacks in this case) votes 91% for one candidate, I think that can fairly be characterized as monolithic or bloc voting. Also - I am not ASSUMING that as you implied. I am basing it on the fact that 91% voted for a single candidate.

:hi:

All this back and forth like they don't exist.

But honestly, I think every group that the campaigns and MSM are taking about with such authority all the time are sick and tired of being pigeonholed.

They talk about all of us like we're not in the room.

If you consider my demographic as Indian-Americans, we're split 3 ways. But if you slice it down "whitely" into young college educated Indian-American men, we've been strongly supporting Obama right from the beginning.

I'm glad the MSM isn't spewing pure BS about me.

You're one of the lucky ones!

I think they have...There just not called College Educated...the short name is UPPITY...

Let's see:

1st Barack wasn't black enough
Then he's too black

Then he's an uppity black
Then he associates with ANGRY Blacks

and geesh were'nt uppity blacks...just another word for Republican blacks...a couple of years back...

Hmmmmmmm.................

Hillary successfully captures the Bigot Vote...

Ummm. I mean the blue collar vote...Right

Divide and Conquer...that's what we're seeing here...

It's worked for years...

It's just sad that Hillary Clinton is using this ploy within our "own party"...

What self-respecting bigot wouldn't help the "little (white) lady" in distress


Works with all those bigots...Every time...

Hang onto your hats...Next up...West Virginia and Kentucky

Yeehaw!

In my playbook...we have a very big tent...

We are ALL Americans...Good Patriotic Americans...Who love God...and Flag Pins...and yes...do think that our country is on the wrong track ...and not really listening...

listening to me...

listening to you...

You count!! Yes You Do!

shameful:(

and even if you do exist, she's more interested in winning votes from 11th grade dropouts who look down on you for getting the college degree they didn't..

eom

in Hillary's American Demographics. :(

Because blacks counted as 3/5 of a person for the purposes of Congressional representation, it was critical that every slave was counted during the Census. But beyond the head count, no one cared who they were.

So, if you study the Census records during this period you will see most Southern plantation households broken down as follows:

Name Gender Race Age
John Smith M W 40
Elizabeth Smith F W 35
William Smith M W 15
Rebecca Smith F W 11

M B 45
F B 18
M B 20
F M 15
F B 3
M B 10
F M 70


This is rather like the manner in which much of the political polling is done today:

White, blue-collar males, over 40
White, college-educated males, over 40
White college-educated women living in the northern suburbs
Steve . . .

Black Voters

at some point you might notice how absurd it is to treat large groups of individuals as if they have no individuality.

I never understand this picture shown over and over that the working class is white.

Said, "Guess all us working class blacks are lazy."

He's so angry with Hillary that changes the channel when she is speaking.

Many working class whites do vote for blacks, of course, but the label is code speak for the racist white voters, many of whom aren't working class at all, but retired.

Imagine if the media couldn't use Politically correct terms to mask their race-baiting tactics

What would it really sound like?

Hillary Clinton hangs her bonnet on the hope that White Bigots - will turn out to vote for her in West Virginia and Kentucky!

Yeah!!! White Bigots support Clinton!

McCain announced today...that he wasn't going to let the bigot vote slip from his grasp...and vowed to woo their support by renewing his efforts to remove MLK Day as a national holiday all across the country.

the hard working educated white, black, blue, yellow, and green vote? Or the hard working, blue collar non whites? What about those white latte, green tea, wine drinking, Birkenstock, leather upper loafer, high heel, pump wearing some college but no degree demographic?? What about their vote?

Native Americans,Asians,Arabs,Hispanics and why aren't they dividing these races into different categories such as working class,college educate etc..

And so is "hung over."

It'd be very, very hard to believe that *at least* one of the campaigns has this covered in their internals.

Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean it's not there.

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