Bradley Effect

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Hard to do so at this point.

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Humanity? No. Americans? Certainly.

As Richard Nixon once put it, enumerating classes of Americans he considered too dumb to vote: "Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, and the rest."

I think that comment pretty much applies everywhere.

Not really - many other countries are reasonably well governed, have 'labour' or moderately other moderately center-left parties, etc.  The american voter really is much more self-destructively gullible and dumb than any others I can think of.

It's because of the frontier mentaily, of blind indivisualism. Most other countries haven't had that.

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That has a lot more to do with the way things are reported than anything else.

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You think income might have something to do with that?

In part, maybe (though that hardly answers things and sets off a whole new set of questions).

Here in California it is indeed by income that segregation happens. Lower income areas like Oakland and Richmond are heavily black and hispanic with the whites and Asians living mostly in the hills above them. There are also lower income asians but they tend to go to SF and poorer areas around San Jose. But that is not to say that the rich areas of the bay area have no hispanics or blacks. Some places like Dublin have a lot of blacks but there is a qualification test, income. Livermore, the city next to us, will not allow the BART to be extended there because they would have to allow the building of apartments and they are just not ok with that. Is it because they fear blacks and hispanics? The answer is that they fear low income people of every stripe, and they are disproportionately black and hispanic.

What passes for racism here is usually class warfare, yes.

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Well the Greens will have a Turkish chairperson in a couple of days...

Thought the ethnics were overrepresented in the PDS?

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Well the Greens will have a Turkish chairperson in a couple of days...

Thought the ethnics were overrepresented in the PDS?

The West German PDS, that is, but yes. In the Greens too though.

Hmm. Didn't know that.