We've overcome one major civil rights hurdle with Barack Obama being elected president. However, with the passage of Calif Prop 8, Flo Prop 2, and various others (all except Calif 8 by huge margins) we still have much to do. One of the more interesting (awful?) facts is that 70% of African-Americans voted for Prop. 8, which was enough to tip the bill to the pass side (it would have failed, barely, had African-Americans voted 50-50 for-against) . This is a higher correlation than Christians (about 67% voted for) and the second highest correlation overall (90% of nonreligious people voted against). One would think a group with such a history of discrimination would vote vehemently against discrimination for other groups. This is apparently incorrect - nobody likes to be discriminated against, but people also, apparently, enjoy discriminating against others. Not surprising, as history has shown time and again.
Complete Prop 8 exit polls: http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2008/11/05/18/prop8.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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