THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLE? African-Americans and this debate

I was thinking we have a lot of diversity on this blogzine. Democrats and Republicans, gay, straight and bisexual (on both sides of the issue, incidentally), men and women, etc. But damn if we are not all white folk aren't we?

Today's New York Times reports that since 2000, the proportion of African-Americans who identify as democrats dropped more ten percentage points, from 74 percent to 63 percent (go here), according to a recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a "research group devoted to African-American issues."

Any relationships with the gay marriage issue? No clue from this tidbit, but just as GOP struggles with appearing moderate to affluent soccer moms, it appears the Dems have a big problem with their base either on this or other issues or both.


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