William Joyce
Chemotherapy for PC
The "Colorblind Conservatives" of the GOP think that by kissing minority butt, they'll ride to victory. They're wrong. Whites are rejecting the Republican Rainbow. Karl Rove, meanwhile, is inviting Hispanics to brunch at his house in NW D.C. Oh, wait -- he didn't invite them? Silly white man!
April 3, 2004
BATON ROUGE (AP) A new study by two political scientists suggests
that racial bias was likely a key factor in the defeat of Indian-
American Bobby Jindal in the 2003 Louisiana governor's race.
Unexpected support from the so-called "David Duke vote" was decisive
in Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco's victory, the detailed
statistical analysis by two government professors at Hamilton
College in Clinton, N.Y., suggests.
White voters who had backed former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in
1991, and who normally vote Republican, instead turned away from
Jindal in the 2003 race, according to the analysis by Richard
Skinner and Philip A. Klinkner. "Duke voters," particularly in north
Louisiana, were enough to provide the new governor her margin,
Skinner and Klinkner suggest.
The unusual Louisiana election provided the political scientists
with a laboratory for studying an irreducible racial element in
Louisiana politics.
In two other recent governor's races, for example, pitting a
conservative white Republican Mike Foster against liberal black
Democrats Cleo Fields and William Jefferson, the white's big win
could arguably have been attributed to the political conservatism of
the Louisiana voter.
But in 2003 Jindal himself ran as a conservative Republican,
removing that element from the calculation. Or, as the authors put
it: "It seems that the racial divisions in Louisiana are really
about race, and not merely a surrogate for the ideological
differences that often separate blacks and whites."
Rest of the story here:
http://www.acadiananow.com/news/html/5FA0B74D-C72A-408B-941A-AA7954CAA616.shtml
April 3, 2004
BATON ROUGE (AP) A new study by two political scientists suggests
that racial bias was likely a key factor in the defeat of Indian-
American Bobby Jindal in the 2003 Louisiana governor's race.
Unexpected support from the so-called "David Duke vote" was decisive
in Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco's victory, the detailed
statistical analysis by two government professors at Hamilton
College in Clinton, N.Y., suggests.
White voters who had backed former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in
1991, and who normally vote Republican, instead turned away from
Jindal in the 2003 race, according to the analysis by Richard
Skinner and Philip A. Klinkner. "Duke voters," particularly in north
Louisiana, were enough to provide the new governor her margin,
Skinner and Klinkner suggest.
The unusual Louisiana election provided the political scientists
with a laboratory for studying an irreducible racial element in
Louisiana politics.
In two other recent governor's races, for example, pitting a
conservative white Republican Mike Foster against liberal black
Democrats Cleo Fields and William Jefferson, the white's big win
could arguably have been attributed to the political conservatism of
the Louisiana voter.
But in 2003 Jindal himself ran as a conservative Republican,
removing that element from the calculation. Or, as the authors put
it: "It seems that the racial divisions in Louisiana are really
about race, and not merely a surrogate for the ideological
differences that often separate blacks and whites."
Rest of the story here:
http://www.acadiananow.com/news/html/5FA0B74D-C72A-408B-941A-AA7954CAA616.shtml
