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To: tejek who wrote (711187)	4/22/2013 2:10:09 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Hi tejek; Re why blacks have higher unemployment and racism. I'm not going to argue about whether Republican or Democrat controlled states have had better success with unemployment. I think it's obvious that the Republican states did better. That's why people are moving to those states and out of Democratic controlled states. I can see this with my eyes. Romney made some sort of comment to this effect and it was fact checked by CNN. Result was that Republican controlled states do have lower unemployment: cnn.com Now they went to a lot of trouble to game the system. Instead of simply dividing the states red and blue according to how they've voted, on average, over the last 30 years say, they instead analyzed things on the basis of which party controlled the governorship. That's very arbitrary but the result was still that the Republican states have lower unemployment. But as far as why blacks have higher unemployment, I suspect that this is a very complicated question. There are a huge number of differences between the "average black" and the "average population" and these things are going to contribute to the differences. Differences include education and age, where they're living and what they do for a living. Looking at the average employment is just silly. As an example of this sort of analysis, consider the effect of average age. It's well known that recessions cause higher unemployment among young people than old. So do black workers have an average age equal to the average age of workers in the population as a whole? I doubt it. What I can look up is the average of blacks as a whole (worker or not). In fact, the median age of the population of the US is 37.3 years while the media age of blacks is 32.2 years. Since blacks are typically younger, their unemployment rates are going to be higher. This does not account for all the difference but is just a single example of the huge number of differences you would have to account for before you concluded that racism caused black unemployment to be higher (during recessions). -- Carl