sycasey said:
hanky1 said:
sycasey said:
Ah, my favorite silly conservative argument all laid out in this thread:
"Democrats don't really care about black people, they are just pandering to win votes and will never help them. It's so false and paternalistic.
Therefore I will tell them what they really need. Wait, why do most of them keep voting for Democrats?"
Actually the argument is: Democrats have thrown a few pennies to the black communities way so they think they own all the blacks and then race bait to make sure that blacks think they have no other option besides democrats.
But black voters do have another option, so why haven't they all (or at least more than 10% of them) started voting for Republicans by now? Surely if the Democrats were so bad for them they would do it.
Pressure on black voters from black peer networks to adopt a partisan Democratic outlook.
During the 2012 campaign, for example, black voters were four times as likely as white voters to report that they expected sharp criticism from friends and family if they voted Republican. This phenomenon was not attributable to the fact that Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, was on the ballot: In 2016, black voters expected disapproval at about the same rate as in 2012.
Here's another striking result: The larger the proportion of a black person's friends who are also black what's known as high racial homophily the more likely he or she is to vote Democratic. For black voters who have a majority of non-black friends, however, the chance that he or she will vote Democratic drops to a coin flip. Among white voters, on the other hand, the link between racial homophily and voting behavior "is essentially zero."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-23/why-black-voters-keep-picking-democrats The difference between a right wing conspiracy and the truth is about 20 months.