The Incredularity of Race as Advantage

I've heard people give it a mention, but mostly just on Fox News and from Geraldine Ferraro sticking her foot in her mouth. But my own dad?

Yes, it's true.

Some background, my dad listens to WCBS AM in New York. This is the station with Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and so on...he's not racist. He's just a little brainwashed by what he hears all day long.

Having said that, he insists that Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee because, simply, "all the black people voted for him." I laughed in the phone.

I did a some research and the results shocked me. The following is a chart showing the percentage of African Americans in each state, and which Democratic nominee won the state:

0.3% - Montana - OBAMA
0.4% - Idaho - OBAMA
0.5% - Maine - OBAMA
0.5% - Vermont - OBAMA
0.6% - North Dakota - OBAMA
0.6% - South Dakota - CLINTON
0.7% - New Hampshire - CLINTON
0.8% - Wyoming - OBAMA
0.8% - Utah - OBAMA
1.6% - Oregon - OBAMA
1.8% - Hawaii - OBAMA
1.9% - New Mexico - CLINTON
2.1% - Iowa - OBAMA
3.0% Arizona - CLINTON
3.1% - Washington - OBAMA
3.2% - West Virginia - CLINTON
3.4% - Minnesota - OBAMA
3.4% Alaska - OBAMA
3.7% - Colorado - OBAMA
4.0% - Nebraska - OBAMA
4.4% - Rhode Island - CLINTON
5.3% - Massachusetts - CLINTON
5.6% - Wisconsin - OBAMA
5.7% - Kansas - OBAMA
6.2% - Nevada - CLINTON
6.7% California - CLINTON
7.2% - Kentucky - CLINTON
7.5% - Oklahoma - CLINTON
8.3% - Indiana - CLINTON
9.0% - Connecticut - OBAMA
9.9% - Pennsylvania - CLINTON
11.0% - Texas - CLINTON
11.1% - Missouri - OBAMA
11.4% - Ohio - CLINTON
13.3% - New Jersey - CLINTON
14.0% - Florida - CLINTON
14.1% - Michigan - CLINTON
15.0% - Illinois - OBAMA
15.5% Arkansas - CLINTON
15.7% - New York - CLINTON
16.1% - Tennessee - CLINTON
19.1% - Virginia - OBAMA
20.0% - North Carolina - OBAMA
20.0% - Delaware - OBAMA
27.1% - Maryland - OBAMA
27.5% - Georgia - OBAMA
28.9% - South Carolina - OBAMA
29.2% Alabama - OBAMA
32.4% - Louisiana - OBAMA
36.0% - Mississippi - OBAMA
60.1% - Washington DC - OBAMA

Barack Obama, in fact, won 15 of the 20 most white states in the country! And many of those states he won by biiiiiig margins, including Montana and Idaho.

Surely, this won't change my dad's mind. But, it doesn't matter much. There's the facts. :-) No big surprise.

Back to reality.