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« on: October 14, 2021, 07:01:05 PM » |
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In addition to all of the comments upthread, it should also be noted that HRC performed extremely poorly in the 2016 GE among the Sovereign First Nations compared to historical performance for DEMs.
Much of that was driven by her perceived support for the Oil Pipeline projects.
This was manifested in significantly lower NA turnout, increased support for NAs for 3rd Party Candidates, etc...
In most of "Indian Country" there were significant DEM swings between '16 and '20, with a few notable exceptions posted by others.
One area where it can get murky when it comes to the Native American vote is the fact that indigenous native populations within the current territorial boundaries of the US have been systematically impacted by not only the original genocide, but later on by intermarriages with non-native populations, so identity becomes a lot more complex for example looking at the Cherokee Nation and overlaps with both African-American populations and Anglo-American populations.
There are also some similar patterns perhaps if we look at the Southwest, in particular the Pueblos of New Mexico, where there is a long an historical pattern of both Native and Spanish cultures blending.
One thing that gets tricky even if we were to just look at precinct results from Native American "Reservations", is that in many cases there are a significant % of non-native populations who live and own property on Native Land.
It gets even more complicated trying to look at Native Populations "Off Rez", since the population is so diluted that we don't really have anything, like might have been the case 50 years ago of precincts in Minneapolis, MN or places in South Dakota etc.... where we could try to assess partisan support on the basis of actual election data vs supposition.
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