| HipHopGodd said: I'm center-left. I've voted for both Democrat and Republican politicians. Most people consider me left wing but my wife is very right wing. Which people think is weird that she married a black guy. |
I don't know why. I mean political opinion polls more or less show the only reason Republicans don't get more black votes is the obvious ones.
Black people on average are actually more conservative than whites. They just don't vote Republican or usually identify as conservative. When you talk about those hot button conservative issues though?
2008 info but http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-republicans-some-moral-issues.aspx
For example, the rise in 2008 of black voters is what was credited for passing the recently disallowed Poposition 8... a whopping 70% of black people voted for it.
Really if the Republicans collapse under their own weight, I wouldn't be surprised if blacks became the backbone for the new "conservative" splinter of the democrats. Black people, union workers, people who would like to be union workers.
Outside which, hell... I had a friend at college who had a white grandfather who was extremely racist. Essentially threatened to leave her out of his will and refused to help her finacially if she ever dated a black man. Despite her being 3/4ths black.... and that HE married a black woman.
