"Income, Race and Voting" by Paul Krugman at the NY Times

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Income, Race and Voting

by Paul Krugman at the NY Times

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/income-raceand-voting/

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There really isn’t any mystery, of course, about these anomalies. Despite occasional attempts to widen its appeal, the GOP has effectively defined itself as the party of white Christians — and there are still a lot of historical memories that go with that definition.

Interestingly, Hispanic voters aren’t that much of an anomaly; they vote Democratic, but given relatively low income and a corresponding reliance on the safety net, that’s not surprising — and they’re not nearly as Democratic as the only somewhat poorer African-American community.

This in turn suggests a problem Republicans may not fully realize with their new strategy, which is in effect to be even more the white Christian party. You can think of this as an attempt to persuade Ohio whites to start voting like Alabama whites, which I guess could happen.

But what if the effect is,instead, to persuade Hispanics to start voting like African-Americans?


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