It's not what you are, it's what you aren't

[eddvick]

New studies at Northwestern University show that when a minority person is reminded of their membership in that minority, they are less likely to prefer a minority candidate than when they are reminded of their exclusion from the majority.
Among students who were asked to write about being Asian (the "affirmational condition"), 26% expressed a

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[martes]

I don't know if they mentioned this in the study, but in Los Angeles there's a large amount of antipathy, sometimes resulting in violence, between blacks and Latinos. A SoCal Latino would be much more likely to vote for a white than a black candidate. I don't know what race relations between blacks and Latinos are in other areas of the country, but that's how they are here, and it's something the study people should take into account.

[farmgirl1146]

I saw two notable bumper stickers today.

"White Trash for Obama"
"Bush's Third Term McCain"