Quote: (12-13-2017 12:48 AM)nomadbrah Wrote:
The demographic breakdown of this election just compounds to the inevitability of a breakdown of the US.
98% black women voted Dem
92% black men voted Dem
27% white men voted Dem
36% white women voted Dem
How are you going to keep a society together like this?
Is that racial voting break down any different from prior elections in Alabama? Is it that many people who would've supported Moore believed in the allegations and stayed home? Was there a problem with Moore's messaging?
I haven't studied any of those questions in much detail but I suspect the racial breakdown in voting is not that much different, if at all, from prior elections. It is just that whites could still get Republican candidates elected despite 90 some percent of blacks voting for the Democrats so it really didn't matter. And I imagine that a better candidate without Moore's baggage would've won with ease. President Trump won Alabama handily after all. I think a lot of people just stayed home.
As far as the question of "How are you going to keep a society together like this?", it may cause ethnic conflict in the long term but, in the short term, if whites begin to block vote in a somewhat higher percentage than now 80-85%, elections would just be a formality.
Some whites that vote Democrat I imagine truly believe in left liberal policies but such policies (e.g. welfare state, nationalized health care, etc.) only gain huge support in homogenous societies. And whites are increasingly demonized in the media as well. I suspect as the country become more diverse and politics become further divided by ethnic lines, more white liberals will move to the center and then right. The idea of cross racial alliances (whites, Asians and successful members of other minority groups, for example) to get certain candidates elected shouldn't be precluded either.