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In reply to the discussion: We Live In The Emotional And Economic Wreckage Of This Broken Home.... [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Women vote in larger numbers than men, and while more white women voted for Romney than for President Obama, white men voted for Romney by a much wider margin. White voters provided such a large proportion of Romney's votes that the thing can be apportion without too much reference to non-white voters. Close to thirty of his points is a good enough approximation; if I were to actually bother with pencil and paper I would expect something between twenty-five and thirty, which the last time one of my grandsons brought me his homework in arithmetic would round up to thirty.
You are in the uncomfortable position of trying to present a minority behavior as having similar or greater weight than a majority behavior. It is not really a sustainable endeavor. No one denies a good many white people do not vote for Republicans. I am one white man who does not vote for Republicans myself. But it is a simple matter of observable fact that most white people do vote Republican, and it is an observable fact that this trend began with the shifting of white votes in the South to Goldwater in '64 because he voted against the Civil Rights Act, and continued down the years with Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' and a calculated Republican campaign of appealing to whites holding racial animus against blacks which continues to this day. Appeal to racial animus among whites, albeit in more coded and oblique forms now than formerly, remains the principal means by which the Republican party manages to sustain some mass following among the electorate as a whole.