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To: JohnM who wrote (191770)	6/16/2012 9:09:41 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543849

As you well know, statistics is used to measure populations and identify them. As you say this can be done a million different ways. I hope I am not overgeneralizing. I have a mental image of the south, and its voting patterns and history. If one correlates different variables like say in an analysis of variance, many things can be predicted with certain degrees of probability and reliability. E.g. the 1964 civil rights act vote. Hard to over generalize that vote. It was like 95% correlated to the south. There are many degrees of generalizations. I am willing to let the numbers make my argument. I will stand by the science and if I am wrong I will change my mind. Science is not bigotry. It may be impolite or irritating, but it is not bigotry.