Paul Rosenberg

[Plane]

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/04/it_is_all_still_about_race_obama_hatred_the_south_and_the_truth_about_gop_wins/


Paul Rosenberg builds a convincing proof of the reasons that no black person can hope to be elected to high office in the USA.

Analyze this survey question. Then see how Paul analyzes it....

Since the 1970s, the GSS has included four questions about the causes of blacks’ lower socioeconomic status. Specifically, it asks, “On the average (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) have worse jobs, income, and housing than white people. Do you think these differences are


a. Mainly due to discrimination?

b. Because most (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) have less in-born ability to learn?

c. Because most (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) don’t have the chance for education that it takes to rise out of poverty?

d. Because most (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) just don’t have the motivation or willpower to pull themselves up out of poverty?

...........This is nationwide, and it paints a very stark picture. While Republicans still overwhelmingly tend to blame blacks for their lower socioeconomic status, Democrats are evenly split — a situation that makes it politically challenging for them to craft a coherent political strategy and message on issues of racial justice.  This would be sobering enough in itself, but the picture is dramatically complicated when we look at the cultural divide between the white South and the rest of the country.....
.....What all the above boils down to is that blaming blacks for being poor remains broadly popular in America today, and that taking note of continued discrimination is not. A modest majority of Democrats outside the white South disagree, and this creates a political fault line that Republicans have repeatedly exploited across the decades, with no end in sight. 

[Xavier_Onassis]

This is hardly earth-shattering news from the state that brought us Plessy v. Ferguson in the 1890s, and the deeply racialized devastation of Katrina less a decade ago, after which even President Bush admitted that “deep, persistent poverty” in the area “has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America.” Speaking of Katrina, according to a PPP poll last year, the good people of Louisiana “were evenly split on who was most responsible for the poor Hurricane Katrina response: George W. Bush or Obama, 28/29.” Given that Obama was a first-year senator at the time of Katrina, it’s not hard to see what Landrieu was driving at.

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To deny that racism does not exist in the South is just ignoring reality.

[Plane]

This guy is relying on poorly thought out survey questions to overanalyze meager  data, and get the answers he wants.

Was there really a survey question that asked how much to blame various politicians for weather damage?

How do you answer survey questions that make little sense?

Do you actually deny that racism exists in the North ?