TigerClaws wrote: “Democrats win all white areas (Montana, Maine) or all black areas.
Why is that?”
This is a very important question, one that I’ve been thinking about for some time now. I registered on FR just so I could answer it.
The short answer: When people live in ethnically homogenous communities, they create social welfare systems (including things like public transport, public hospitals, good public schools, etc.). When people live in ethnically diverse communities, community trust declines and social welfare systems become contentious.
You may be familiar with Robert Putnam’s study which showed quite clearly that an increase in ethnic diversity correlates strongly with a decrease in social trust, all across the board, and within given ethnic groups as much as between them. The full text of the report is available here and it’s well worth looking at. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/full
Casual observation confirms this: some of the most socialist states in the world are some of the most homogenous: Scandinavia.
The massive demographic shift that has been going on in the US for decades now is the root cause of a sea change in the political scene. One result is that white conservatives oppose government in a way that e.g. Eisenhower would have found incomprehensible. They are doing this because they don’t want their money to go to other ethnic groups. If the US was still 90% white, a national healthcare program would be far less controversial.
The MSM calls this type of behavior racist. It’s not, or not entirely, racist; what it is is _racial_, ethnic, a matter of in-group/out-group dynamics. Wanting to keep resources within one’s ethnic or cultural group is not inherently wrong - all groups do this. I sincerely wish that this fact were acknowledged and dealt with openly in public discourse. Ignoring it is only going to make things worse.
I could go on but I’ll leave it there. Just one more link that might be of interest: http://www.amren.com/ar/2000/04/
Welcome to Free Republic. :~) Interesting post.
Good post and makes sense. Thanks for registering to share that.
Great response. Thanks!
Great post!
I think that you might be missing one component though.
Some societal groups are builders and some are strictly takers. You might want to try to figure this fact into the calculations.