Which of these common political fallacies annoy you the most? (user search)
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  Which of these common political fallacies annoy you the most? (search mode)
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Reagan Democrats are a sizeable voting constituency
 
#2
City residents are poor, suburbanites are rich
 
#3
WY/ID/UT are libertarian states
 
#4
Most SNAP participants are black
 
#5
Elections always come down to a few "swing" voters
 
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traininthedistance
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« on: September 19, 2013, 08:17:51 PM »

That people of color turnout to vote less than white people.

This and Option 2 in the poll are, in fact, statistically accurate even if they might be arguably misleading in that they obscure the massive variation within urban/suburban areas and minority groups.  There are plenty of rich urbanites and poor suburbantites, but on average the suburbs are wealthier than the central cities; likewise while African-Americans vote about as much as whites, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans all have much worse turnout.

And of course Option 4 is the worst offender in this list.
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traininthedistance
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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2013, 10:15:57 AM »

That people of color turnout to vote less than white people.

This and Option 2 in the poll are, in fact, statistically accurate even if they might be arguably misleading in that they obscure the massive variation within urban/suburban areas and minority groups.  There are plenty of rich urbanites and poor suburbantites, but on average the suburbs are wealthier than the central cities; likewise while African-Americans vote about as much as whites, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans all have much worse turnout.

And of course Option 4 is the worst offender in this list.

I was under the impression that the difference in apparent voter turnout for Latinos/Asians was due to lower % of citizenship, and that among citizens the rates were basically the same. Which actually would mean that people of color are more likely to vote than whites of similar class/education, given the huge racial gap in those. As for Native Americans really idk, small sample sizes and all.

The lower citizenship percentage is part of the story, but not entirely.  If you control for both citizenship and for class/education, you get closer to parity but still not quite there (and, at least for Presidential elections, you actually get higher participation among blacks than whites).
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