[wardaddy]

Contrary to the myth we were fed for decades.

Middle class blacks are more liberal than poor ones.

Money didn’t fix squat. Education probably hurt...it does everyone now.

(ok...a few exceptions like maybe 2-3%)

[Clemenza]

Middle class blacks are more liberal than poor ones.

Replace liberal with "militant" and "white hating" and you have what Alan Dershowitz (!) of all people said in Chutzpah regarding black racial attitudes years ago.

[lentulusgracchus]

In the 1992 election returns that someone sliced and diced statistically, the votes didn't show that.

Middle- and upper-income (educated) blacks gave Mr. Bush a much better split (a larger minority) of their votes than the low-income blacks, who voted 96% for the Rapist.

Middle-class blacks showed their strong preference for Clinton at the polls, but at least they showed signs of having weighed the issues and candidates on their merits, however preponderantly they finally broke for the Dims.

[hout8475]

I think the following might be the reason:

While a lot of poor blacks are on welfare, those who actually work usually have jobs in the private sector. On the other hand, a huge majority of middle class blacks work in the public sector. Here is one example. My home city of Houston is approximately 25% black. Yet, more than three-quarters of the city bus drivers are black. Affirmative action is most strongly applied towards government jobs. Back in 1997, there was a local affirmative action initiative on the ballot. The voting results in the Chronicle showed that Riverside, a middle to upper-middle class black neighborhood, had the highest support for the initiative.