"White Alienation, Black Satisfaction and the Obama Era"

[applegrove]

White Alienation, Black Satisfaction and the Obama Era

By Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-29/white-alienation-black-satisfaction-and-the-obama-era.html

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A new ABC News-Fusion poll contains a remarkable finding. When asked whether "people like you" are well represented in Congress, twice as many nonwhites (47 percent) as whites (24 percent) say yes. Of course, "people like you" is a Rorschach of a phrase that can encompass ideology, sex, region, class, religion and more. Race is only one identifier.

Still, the sharp disparity between whites, a 48 percent plurality of whom are Republicans or Republican-leaners, and nonwhites, 70 percent of whom are Democrats or lean that way, is striking. It's especially notable given the demographic and ideological realities of Congress. Of the 431 members currently in the House of Representatives (there are four vacancies), 80 percent are white, according to the House Press Gallery. The Senate, which has three Hispanics, two blacks and one Asian, is 94 percent non-Hispanic white.

In a nation that is 63 percent white, whites are significantly overrepresented in Congress, and conservative whites even more so. Democratic House candidates collectively won 1.4 million more votes than Republican House candidates in 2012, yet Republicans retained control of the House majority. Conservative senators from rural red states exercise the same power as senators representing vastly larger and more liberal coastal states. California has 66 times the population of Wyoming, yet Wyoming's two Republican senators equal California's two Democrats in voting power.

In sum, whites (especially conservative whites) are robustly overrepresented in Congress yet twice as likely as nonwhites to feel as if people like them are not well represented.




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[applegrove]

1. Someone call a waaambulance!!!

[Sheldon Cooper]

2. Seriously.

Whiny white people

[xfundy]

3. Just proof that ignorance and stupidity CAN be taught.

Those of us who grew up with it still struggle with it after years. I don't know how/whether later-learners deal with it after seeing truth, if they can even see truth after such indoctrination.