New evidence on the political views of mixed-race adopted and step-families

The Washington Post ^ | January 31, 2014 | Jim Lindgren

[Academiadotorg]

Not surprisingly, there is no statistically significant left-right political differences in the proportion of adopted or step-families that are in mixed race households. Indeed, among families with step-children or adopted children, 11 percent of conservatives were living in mixed race households compared to 10 percent of liberals living in mixed-race households.

Similarly, 9.4 percent of Republicans living in step- or adopted families were in mixed-race households, compared to only 8.8 percent of Democrats in such families. (Again, this small advantage for Republicans is not large enough to be statistically significant).

If one breaks things down further by both party and political orientation, only 7.7 percent of liberal Democrats and 3.6 percent of moderate Democrats lived in mixed-race adopted or step-households, compared to an insignificantly different 10.6 percent of conservative Republicans.

[golux]

I grew up in a mixed-race household, half European and half redneck, with no reconciliation to this day between F1 and NASCAR.

[latina4dubya]

I grew up in a mixed-race household, half European and half redneck, with no reconciliation to this day between F1 and NASCAR.

ha!

[ZULU]

After living in New Jersey for too many years, I acquired a Red-Neck and I’m proud of it.

Nothing like a good unhealthy dose of liberalism to turn a logical human being into a gun-loving, Bible thumping, Constitution quoting conservative!

[Fireone]

Why can’t we all just get along? I grew up being a big fan of F1, NHRA, SCCA, and NASCAR, and have campaigned cars in both NHRA and SCCA. No problem with diversity here!

[MrB]

Another example of a complete refutation of a liberal ASSumption,

but it won’t matter - they’ll hold onto their assumption in light of any evidence to the contrary.

[Tupelo]

In my opinion, there are thousands maybe even millions of mixed race children adopted into families that we never hear of because they were adopted for love not political or fiancial gain. But the saddest of all are the children who were adopted for the sole reason of gaining that advantage. And there are many from Hollywood to Washington and all points in between. Too many.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

You left out IMSA, WRC, and FIA GT and WTCC. You, sir, need further motorsports diversity training. :)

[Boonie]

You forgot IROC and USAC...You, also, are in dire eed of diversity training....:o)

[mulligan]

Who cares and what a waste of time.

[Jeff Chandler]

My mother had some French blood, but we don’t usually admit it. Does that count?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My daughter grew up in a mixed faith household. I was PC, Mom was Apple. She embraced linux when she grew up.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

WTF does “statistically significant” mean in this context? Do you think given a dictionary and loaded gun to his head the author could define statistical significance? I think it means that conservatives are ahead, but we won’t count it in the win column for them.

[Vince Ferrer]

“We have both kinds of music here, country AND western.”

[Vince Ferrer]

Do you think the article would keep qualifying the results if democrats were in more multiracial adoptions than republicans?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m pretty sure that if self identified liberals were ahead by 0.1% he’d be spiking the ball and doing the Macarena in the end zone.

[Organic Panic]

As demonstrated by the progressives’ view on Romney’s family, black people are the sole property of the progressives.

[bus man]

This is a little confusing, because the article describes two different scenarios: (1) white people adopting non-white children, and (2) a white person and a non-white person producing mixed-race offspring.

Some of the commenters on the Post article wondered whether the acceptance rate would be different if one were looking at white-Asian families (i.e. either a white couple adopting an Asian child or a white parent and an Asian parent producing mixed-race kids) versus black-white families in the same two scenarios. I don't know, but it's an interesting question.

As for the acceptance balance when considering adoptive families, I can offer this anectode: I am a member of a group of families where almost all of the parents are white (two of the ladies are Asian, each married to a white man) and all of the kids are adopted Asians (except for 2 bio-kids, who are 2 of the 4 kids belonging to one of the white-Asian parent families). Of the 10 families, 4 (including mine, and also including the family with the 2 adopted kids and the two "mixed-race" bio kids) are conservative, 4 are liberal, and 2 I just don't know.

So basically it's half-and-half, conservative vs. liberal . . . and this is in Central Maryland, where conservatives are practically an endangered species! Not that our sample size is anywhere near big enough to make generalized conclusions, but if we overlook that minor detail, I can say that adoptive mixed-race families are actually more likely to be conservative than the general population.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Considering what IROC looked like toward the end, it’s easy to forget about it. And USAC is also rather easy to forget, given that their leadership is even more inept than that of IndyCar. ;)

[IYAS9YAS]

Why can’t we all just get along? I grew up being a big fan of F1, NHRA, SCCA, and NASCAR, and have campaigned cars in both NHRA and SCCA. No problem with diversity here!

Straight-line, roundy-rounds, twisty-turnies, asphalt, dirt, mixed, all forms - go Go GO! Hell, I've even watch huge trucks racing across the desert using GPS waypoints to get to the finish line. It's a blast - three-man crews, when them suckers break, they break big.