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[novapsyche]

Whites Take Flight on Election Day

[W]hite Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says economist Ebonya Washington of Yale University in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. White independents are similarly inclined to vote for the white Democrat when there's a black Republican running, according to her study of congressional and gubernatorial voting patterns between 1982 and 2000, including five Senate races in which the Republican nominee was black.

[...] But racially motivated crossover voting is not just a Republican phenomenon. Democrats also desert their party when its candidate is black, Washington found. In House races, white Democrats are 38 percentage points less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black.

Comments

[ardent-spork.livejournal.com]

"[W]hite Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black..."

I blame Allan Keyes.

[artofcode.livejournal.com]

Wow, now that's surprising! That there are actually black Republicans, that is.

Hey, wait a minute! With a name like "Ebonya Washington", that researcher has got to be black! So her study had to be slipshod and not to be trusted.

Guess they're letting anybody into Yale these days. That study never would have come out of Harvard!