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A hobbyhorse around here is documenting instances of Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals phenomenon at work. Briefly stated, it is the tendency for white liberals to be on one side of a cultural issue with blacks and white conservatives on the other side of it. Here’s another addition to that index:
Because the white conservative position is invariably portrayed as the bad one by the cultural power centers, the fact that blacks align with white conservatives is downplayed or ignored. When a ban on same-sex marriage was voted down in California in 2008, for example, conservative Mormons–comprising less than 1% of the state’s population–were blamed for its narrow passage by a 52%-48% margin even though blacks were the ones who pushed it through by voting 70% in favor.
There's a real pretty graph here
The title IMO!
Because the white conservative position is invariably portrayed as the bad one by the cultural power centers, the fact that blacks align with white conservatives is downplayed or ignored. When a ban on same-sex marriage was voted down in California in 2008, for example, conservative Mormons–comprising less than 1% of the state’s population–were blamed for its narrow passage by a 52%-48% margin even though blacks were the ones who pushed it through by voting 70% in favor.
There's a real pretty graph here
The title IMO!