Racialized voting patterns in Riverside Co, CA?

[freepcrusher]

I was trying to redistrict that area and found that the county is only 40 percent white. But how come Obama only narrowly won it and Whitman won it by close to 10 points? Is there racialized voting patterns in that county?

[freepcrusher]

Also, Hispanic voter turnout in SoCal is dreadful.

I thought CA had the highest Hispanic turnout in the country. How else were they able to topple B1 Bob? When you consider that that was 15 years ago and that there is probably even more hispanics eligible to vote, they are easily the second most important voting bloc behind Anglos.

[freepcrusher]

i was playing around on Dave's Redistricting App. The precincts in Riverside County that are majority white gave McCain 56 percent of the vote. The precincts in Riverside County that are not majority white gave Obama 58 percent of the vote. So there's obviously a difference, but compared to the country as a whole I would say it isn't all that polarized, especially compared to parts of the south.