• "But while a majority of non-white voters backed a ban on gay marriage, the key finding in the new survey was that voters' position on Proposition 8 was determined more by their level of education and income than their race or ethnicity, said PPIC president Mark Baldassare. Among Californians with a high school diploma or less, 69 percent voted for Proposition 8. Among college graduates, 57 percent voted against it. 'Both among whites and non-whites, among college graduates and among upper-income voters, Prop. 8 lost,' Baldassare said. 'Among both whites and non-whites, among non-college graduates and lower-income voters, Prop. 8 won. …' Because African-Americans and Latinos tend to have lower incomes and a lower share of college graduates than whites, Baldassare said the racial voting pattern on same-sex marriage was really a reflection of education and income."
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Will we now hear gay activists bemoan how "betrayed" they feel by low income,high school graduates?
omg. can we stop with the analyzing already. im all for gay marriage, but really, how is this going to help the cause???
we need to stop wondering why it passed, and work on trying to get it overturned.
Yeah I agree with Lizzle…
The fact is simply this.. All those surveys are just distractions, trying to divide people even more. The real fact is this, there are waay more heterosexuals than homosexuals period. When voting, the majority rules, unless you can "convince" the other party to agree with you. And it's hard to convince straight people that gay is ok…
But I think this is really important, though. It underscores the fact that race really shouldn't be the first demographic we look at when taking into account how people view the world, because many more things other than the color of our skin influence our behavior. Yet, there are tons of people out there who would just love to point the finger at Blacks as a group like something about our skin color means that we are against gay marriage. And those same finger pointers should spend some of their time trying to fix the fucked up education system before they talk…
I agree with your viewpoint Matthew. I'm more of a skeptic that it will ever happen but to draw this conclusion (one I am not surprised by) means there needs to be some push toward education and recycling of black/brown dollars. It's not
"hard to convince straight people that gay is OK." It's hard to convince uninformed, single-minded, people who have a different set of values that "gay is OK." Once you get to the source of the issue then you should start making moves to affect that source and reposition.
People of color, particularly were an important part of this election but let's not forget that when you vote, you vote with your dollars as well and all the money that was put toward the proponents of Prop 8 came from a religious base not a race-based organization.