A POLL NO ONE WILL EVER TAKE | 2004-11-11
A baseball pro named Whitaker (with one "t" just like mine) is almost certainly a good liberal Democrat. Why? Because he's black.
Not everybody named Whitaker is white. Everybody knows that. Any pollster who did a poll to find out how Whitakers voted without breaking them down by race would be considered an idiot.
Any pollster who bunched all the Anglo-Saxon names together in a poll without making any racial distinction would be considered an idiot.
Now let's look at the vote everybody calls Hispanic. People keep saying there are "cultural differences" between Hispanics. A Garcia from Honduras has a different "culture" than a Hispanic from Mexico.
Actually, that makes little political difference. A colored man from Mexico votes liberal Democratic, just as a colored man from Guatamala does.
What is needed is a poll of "Hispanics" based on the color of the skin.
"Culture" makes little difference in politics. Race makes ALL the difference in politics. The earlier, whiter Cubans who came to America are solid Republican. The darker ones (the ones who came later) have, to use the standard euphemism, "returned to more traditional Hispanic voting patterns."
Translation: They're colored, so they're anti-white.
Simplisitic? This simple statement is a lot less "simplistic" than assuming that everybody named Garcia falls into the same group.