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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the demographic map bev.  Where do tyou find something like that?. 
(click on my state, AZ, to see the breakdown) It's very interesting with the 
density of the black population in the South.  They all got homesick and came 
back home :-) ....bobford


--- On Thu, 10/23/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Newsweek -- "A one point race" ?
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 6:12 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> 
> > I live in a city with a lot of Mexican immigrants.  At
> least here,
> > Mexicans are very prejudiced against black people.  I
> just don't see
> > the majority of Mexicans voting for a black man ,
> unless they feel
> > there will be a big payoff.
> 
> Here, too!!  I don't understand why either.
> 
> > 
> > Black people make up about 12 % of our population,
> they will vote
> > almost 100% for Obama.
> 
> http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html
> 
> That was from 2000.  Since that time, Atlanta population
> has grown 
> tremendously, with many blacks from the northern states
> returning to the 
> South.  Atlanta is about 98% black.  Note that a larger
> area of the US 
> has practically zero black people. The high percentage of
> blacks in the 
> South bring the average to 12%.
> I recall the first time I went out West.  I think I was in
> downtown 
> Denver.  Something did not feel right, and I couldn't
> put my finger on 
> what made me so uncomfortable.  Then, I realized...I did
> not see any 
> black people there!  I started looking around...no blacks
> to be found! 
> In later years, I noticed the same thing about the inner
> cities of 
> Portland and Seattle.  I am used to seeing blacks
> everywhere in my daily 
> life, and then not to see any....weird...
> I honestly don't see how, if blacks vote for Obama
> 100%, Georgia will go 
> for McCain.
> 
> > 
> > I just don't see people in my life experience
> (which is quite diverse
> > and varied) voting for Obama in the numbers the polls
> show.  But,
> > when I see crowds like the other day in Missouri, it
> really almost
> > seems like old time Billy Grham revivals, pulling in
> everyone to
> > share the moment.
> 
> The folks on my loop are all going to vote at 10 AM,  there
> will be 
> coffee and doughnuts afterwards.  It is the Rock Creek
> version of "Get 
> out the vote!"
> 
> Bev
> 
> -- 
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger.
> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda