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To: koan who wrote (24226)	8/20/2012 3:22:03 PM
From: TopCat	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

"You made a claim I am sure is false. So if I try to look it up I will find nothing." Hide your head in the sand, Chuck.

To: koan who wrote (24226)

8/20/2012 3:27:36 PM

From: Brumar89

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I pointed out data from Berkeley.edu. You can't accept it because it clashes with your preconceived ideas. Thanks for demonstrating that liberals minds are tightly closed.

In 2002, slightly more Democrats than Republicans favored laws against interracial marriage and said they wouldn't vote for a black President.

Racism by Political Party

by Alex Tabarrok on August 19, 2012 at 7:30 am in Current Affairs, Data Source, Television | Permalink

It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other.

Chris Hayes, Up w/ Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012.

Here is data asking whites the question Do you Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage (this is from 2002, the latest year available for this question).

Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage
	Democrat	Ind	Repub	Other	TOTAL

YES	11.9	9.6	11.5	5	10.8
NO	88.1	90.4	88.5	95	89.2

Here is data asking whites whether they agree with the sentiment that Blacks Shouldn’t be Pushy.

	Blacks Shouldn’t Be Pushy
	Democrat	Ind	Republican
AGREE STRONGLY	14.9	14.2	15.8
AGREE SLIGHTLY	20.4	20.6	26.6
DISAGREE SLIGHTLY	30.2	28	25.9
DISAGREE STRONGLY	34.5	37.2	31.7

Finally from 2008 here is data asking whites whether they would vote for a black for President. (Row: racprec, column partyid, filter: race(1) year(2008)).

	Would Vote for Black President
	STRONG DEMOCRAT	NOT STR DEMOCRAT	NOT STR REPUBLICAN	STRONG REPUBLICAN
YES	92.4	94	93.9	94.7
No	7.6	6	6.1	5.3

It is true that there are more differences across party lines on policy questions such as on affirmative action, again with a mix in both parties but with more Republicans than Democrats opposing. I don’t consider these types of policy preferences to be grounds for calling someone a racist, however.

It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists.

Racism low these days, but still marginally higher among Dems: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/racism-by-political-party.html