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White liberals are more left-wing than black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue:
White college Democrats tend to live in neighborhoods, high-income suburbs, gentrified parts of central cities, where issues of violent crime and rioting are theoretical. They have security guards and doormen and sympathetic police officers to assure them they won’t be bothered. Hispanics and blacks, including the minorities of these groups who have conservative views, are seldom similarly protected. Rioting is not theoretical to them, it’s a real threat.
White gentry liberals are happy to believe assurances of the New York Times and CNN that the post-May 25 demonstrations were “mostly peaceful” and justified by “systemic racism,” which, the Times assures us, goes back to 1619. For Hispanics and black homeowners, who live in bungalows without doormen and work and shop in neighborhoods without private security guards, those reassurances ring hollow.
Defund the police' cost Democrats Hispanic and black votes
Similarly, if you map the sites of murders, and we have seen a vast increase in murders, the largest yearly percentage increase ever recorded, since last May 25, you find the biggest clusters in majority black areas, with much smaller numbers in majority Hispanic areas.
The sad fact is that violent crime rates among blacks are about eight times those among whites and probably at least double those among Hispanics (FBI crime statistics, unlike most government statistics, don’t tabulate Hispanic numbers separately).
White college Democrats tend to live in neighborhoods, high-income suburbs, gentrified parts of central cities, where issues of violent crime and rioting are theoretical. They have security guards and doormen and sympathetic police officers to assure them they won’t be bothered. Hispanics and blacks, including the minorities of these groups who have conservative views, are seldom similarly protected. Rioting is not theoretical to them, it’s a real threat.
White gentry liberals are happy to believe assurances of the New York Times and CNN that the post-May 25 demonstrations were “mostly peaceful” and justified by “systemic racism,” which, the Times assures us, goes back to 1619. For Hispanics and black homeowners, who live in bungalows without doormen and work and shop in neighborhoods without private security guards, those reassurances ring hollow.
Defund the police' cost Democrats Hispanic and black votes
Similarly, if you map the sites of murders, and we have seen a vast increase in murders, the largest yearly percentage increase ever recorded, since last May 25, you find the biggest clusters in majority black areas, with much smaller numbers in majority Hispanic areas.
The sad fact is that violent crime rates among blacks are about eight times those among whites and probably at least double those among Hispanics (FBI crime statistics, unlike most government statistics, don’t tabulate Hispanic numbers separately).
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