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Didn't used to check BlackElectorate.com so often. Not because they didn't have interesting material, but because usually it only annoyed me. Like this article, "Racial, ideological issues split black, white voters" from USA Today.

Clear ''racial and ideological divides'' between African-Americans and whites ''characterize the 2002 political environment,'' the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies concluded from the results of its National Opinion Poll on political issues, which was conducted in September and October and released last week.

The news is not that whites and African-Americans see some things differently. That has pretty much been the case since the first slave ship docked in the country back in 1619.

What makes this report remarkable is how this gap has widened since the Joint Center conducted its last poll in 2000. Then, 56% of African-Americans and 57% of whites believed the country was moving in the right direction. Two years later, 40.6% of whites still hew to that belief, but only 23.9% of blacks now agree.

It does get down to some very limited specifics (how favorably Bush and Clinton are viewed, for example), but ignores class and any groups outside of black and white. So, annoying and hardly informative.

Unless you really haven't been paying attention. I imagine the right-wingers are either shocked by this, or busy "proving" that the supposed divide doesn't exist.

They may even speak to an actual black person in the course of this.

Doubtful, I know.

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