Well damn! I just found out I'm a minority voter! Stats on WJ this AM

[napi21]

showed all "minority race voters" voted mostly for Obama, and only 45% of white voters voted for Obama. I wonder if the majority of white voters always voted Pub, or is that a more recent thing? I know they said Obama got a higher % of white voters than Kerry did, but I find it odd that if this country was only white, it apparently would be Pub! As an old white lady, I find that frightening!!!!

[Captain Hilts]

1. Old white men are you problem, old white lady! And married women!

White men are VERY Republican and married white women also are.

Thanks for being a 'minority' voter!

ER: Yes, it's just grand!

[chemp]

6. as a married white man

My wife and I were PROUD Obama supporters. As were many married couples we work with.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Anecdotes aren't data. Our lives are very self-selecting. As a pollster...

those patterns have been in play a long time.

[Kazak]

2. In the next 40 years, there's going to be a turnover.

The next few generations coming up are going to be a lot more reasonable, I think/hope. 40 years a lot of this hate will've just disolved a way.

[Captain Hilts]

4. It's mostly about money and guns. nt

[marmar]

3. I suspect that if you took the South out of those stats......

.... then Obama would have won the majority of white votes, comfortably.

[Captain Hilts]

5. White men over 35 are overwhelmingly Republican.

Married white women are seriously Republican.

[Kazak]

8. Wow, I'm a married white man over 35.

...and I'm nowhere near Republican. It's weird. And, I live in Oklahoma too!

[Captain Hilts]

11. Statistically, you don't exist - Sorry!

Keep up the Good Fight!

[Greybnk48]

9. I'm an old married white lady, so is my sister and my daughter's

MIL. We all voted Obama. I don't know one old (I'm 60 tomorrow!) white lady who is a Dem who did not vote Obama. As a matter of fact, my daughter's MIL is a * loving Repug, only watches Fox for her "news", and she bailed on McCain because of his "Health Insurance Tax."

Here are some more: My two white, elderly Aunts 81 and 84, and my 83 y/o MIL all voted Obama.

[Fresh_Start]

10. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act was when

the whites swarmed to the GOP. When he signed it he said something like "we delivered the South to the Republicans for a generation"... turns out it was longer than a generation.