[EL] query about white Southern voters in 2012

[John Tanner]

David Bositis at the Joint Center had some data (e.g., only 10% of whites
voted for Obama in 2008), but I don,t see it on their web site. I would
like to see it.

I really would like to see the precinct returns for the MS Delta elections,
as I'm not sure that they mean all that the Op-Ed contends.  It has never
been all that unusual for white candidates at the local level to win a
share of the black vote - enough to win with disparities in voter turnout
and near-unanimous white support.  That has been especially true in the
Delta.  Some black leaders blame it on a "Plantation Mentality".  I know of
a number of specifc precincts where past election results strongly support
the plantation mentality thesis (although they are mostly rural.)  And
there always have been instances of white candidates being the 1st choice
of black voters for some time.  For that matter, there also are isolated
examples of black candidates winning in heavily white areas, including to
legislatures from NE MS and, most remarkably, James Fields (who is a
terrific person) from a 98% white House district in Cullman County  AL.
The NY Times did a story on those electiosn a while back.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> In response to a recent blog post about African-Americans in the south
> being willing to vote for white candidates, and its potential relevance
> for the Shelby County VRA section 5 case before the Supreme Court,  a
> reader asked me about cross-racial voting going the other way: southern
> White voting for Obama and for black gubernatorial and other
> African-American candidates.
> I recall seeing some statistics on Obama v. Kerry among Southern whites
> but I cannot find that reference now.   I'd appreciate pointers to that
> comparison, and any relevant statistics or literature.
> Thanks.
>
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