this really doesn't look right to me, in both meanings.
For instance, lack of emotional involvement and assumptions that everything will be fine are stronger on the liberal left than the conservative right, leading to fewer voting. It does not mean that those on the left who don't vote are as racist as the right. If more voted, the map would be more blue.
That all-blue map?! How on earth are POC supposed to turn whole states blue where they're less than 5% of the population?
Btw, when the day comes that POC no longer feel actively threatened by a conservative white power party, the external factors that create the AA's strong liberal-conservative voting alliance will be mostly gone. Especially in the south and southwest where more people are conservative, and especially among males. Many black conservatives, not just more Hispanic and others, will gladly join the conservative (red) party.
(In this real world, how many years of AA empowerment will pass before they flood America's conservative party, whatever its name is then, and force further change, including in office as conservative politicians? Presumably starting in states like GA where they're big demos, guessing lagging in states where larger Hispanic conservative demos have already established beachheads.)
The author might also have deleted just one of those five hits against white people to make room for the GIANT DEMOS OF YOUNGER GENERATIONS. Completely missing, and WTF? Because they're doing better but still poorly. If half of their nonvoters brought a 100th of the attention to civic issues as they do to meeting up with friends and photographing themselves, that would be a revolution. I think we all know what kind of map that would produce, but it'd be interesting to see what honest results from honest researchers would look like. They include plenty of conservatives by personality, but those're overall more accepting of today's realities. Btw, most people become more conservative with parenthood, and that won't change. Conservatism is real, both genetically linked and by nurture.
Hey, how about a map that showed how just a slight shift of societal attention from exercising bodies to exercising thinking muscles would change everything?!
There are people whose inadequately exercised minds are still influenced by a 1986 Newsweek claim that single women over 40 were more likely to be killed by terrorism than to get married. It immediately became accepted wisdom because it originated from some Ivy League idiot who must be right. This ridiculous notion weakened over most of a decade to "feels true" and has weakened further as women's equality and choices have advanced, but the general notion is still embedded in flabby minds and will have to die with them.
But others long ago said, "What? I know single women who got married over 40 and I don't know any who've been kidnapped by terrorists." And others had a moment of real insight some time in the succeeding 34 years and freed themselves from it.
The best time for thinking is always when new input needs it, before just letting it soak in.
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People who call themselves fighters against racism while seeking to intensify racial divisions or progressives while they fight to overset progressivism in government are society's oxymorons. The successes of greedy billionaires couldn't have happened, they couldn't have happened, without successful manipulation of those easily deceived and those determined to be.