Comment 16768

By Andrew (registered) | Posted January 07, 2008 at 19:29:55

First of all I would like to thank everyone for reading my post and for taking the time to comment.

Ryan's answer to Rusty was excellent. I just want to add one point. Race is becoming less of an issue in the United States. It has not disappeared as an issue, but it is less important than ever. The change has apparently been quite rapid.

Lawrence Krugman has a discussion of this in his book "the Conscience of a Liberal" and he makes two points.

First polling data is showing that on many of the hot button race issues, less people are racist than ever before. Even with the most sensitive issue (inter-racial marriage) there has been a big difference over a generation. About a generation ago over 40% of America was against inter-racial marriage, whereas now that number is less than 15%; I am working from memory here so my numbers might be a little off.

Secondly those areas where race is an important issue are not democratic states and are not likely to be democrat states for a long time; he was specifically talking about the deep south.

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