Over the last several weeks, David Sirota has been pushing his theory of a "race chasm." The theory is where black numbers are overwhelming white racism can be overcome, and where black populations are scarce, there isn't a history of racial politics, so Obama can win white voters, but in those states in the middle, he tends to lose, or at best win narrowly. In his
Looking at the county-by-county breakdown in many states, from ones Clinton has won to ones that Obama has won, it's clear that Obama does worse, overall, in overwhelmingly white counties in Appalachia. But I didn't have concrete data, so I decided to look at my own state, PA, in great detail. And I found a few surprising things...
STATE BLOGS
Powered by: SoapBlox