The BS About Losing Prop 8 Among LTBGs
posted November 7, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/the-bs-about-losing-prop-8-among-ltbgs/Ok, to all of those who wanna make Blacks the "fall-guys" for the passage of Prop 8 in California. First, I don't think, given the statistics, that Prop 8 lost because of African-American folk. The balloting county-by-county for the state
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-2008election-prop8prop4,0,5847695.htmlstory indicates that in LA County the voting showed a difference of about 21,000 votes, roughly 52″-48% in favor of Prop 8.
In next-door Kern County, not I think a bastion of black supremacy, the difference was about 98,000 votes in favor of 8, 75% to about 24.5%. State-wide there were about 600,000 votes difference, roughly 52%-48%.
According to the Cal. Pan-Ethnic Health Network, using 2000 U.S. Census data,
http://www.cpehn.org/democharts.php African-Americans in all of the state were about 6% of the population, whites (non-Latino) were about 47% of the population and Latinos were about 32% of the population. Those figures may have changed somewhat, but if they have I'd suggest that the increase has mostly come in the Latino population and not the A-A population.
