Today I want to share a statistic with you:
93-6, 71-27.
Election or basketball game, that's a blowout if you're on the losing end. The thing is, in the past, the second score would have mattered less; "Latinos" were only a marginal percentage of the U.S. population. However:
Want to know a really bizarre secret though?
Exactly: the Latino voting block has hardly even been tapped.
So why would Latinos (or African Americans) vote for Obama en masse? Is it a question of income?
After all...
This graph shows the poverty rate between 1959 and 2011. Note the increase:
But just why is there such a sharp increase in Latino poverty (here listed as "Hispanic")? One can only wonder: is it the influx of unskilled labor? The impact of the recession? Both?
If it is the recession, why did the "Non-Hispanic White" poverty rate only slightly increase towards the end of the chart, whereas the Latino figure soared upwards?
93-6, 71-27.
Election or basketball game, that's a blowout if you're on the losing end. The thing is, in the past, the second score would have mattered less; "Latinos" were only a marginal percentage of the U.S. population. However:
Want to know a really bizarre secret though?
Exactly: the Latino voting block has hardly even been tapped.
So why would Latinos (or African Americans) vote for Obama en masse? Is it a question of income?
After all...
This graph shows the poverty rate between 1959 and 2011. Note the increase:
But just why is there such a sharp increase in Latino poverty (here listed as "Hispanic")? One can only wonder: is it the influx of unskilled labor? The impact of the recession? Both?
If it is the recession, why did the "Non-Hispanic White" poverty rate only slightly increase towards the end of the chart, whereas the Latino figure soared upwards?
This brings us to one of ‘problems’ with democracy: It can often be more of a ethnic-racial-subcultural-religious-younameit headcount than some kind of grand public policy debate between honest men with each man honestly wrangling with the issues in good faith, etc.
ReplyDeleteObama won solely because of the electorate changed, racially. Romney would’ve walked away with an easy victory with if 2012 had had 1980′s racial demographics. (According to analysis by Byron York and others).
Why not just let election results be decided by the U.S. Census Bureau? For all practical purposes, that’s what happened anyway.