Uh... are you under the impression that democrats are not racist or pro-police?
Less racist? Absolutely.
First off, note that you are speaking
statistically, here. And worse, you're speaking in terms of poorly contextualized statistics. Finally, it's not a question of whether they are
as racist as Republican's, merely
racist enough. Republican's don't even factor into the equation.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12077/abstract
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-white-republicans-more-racist-than-white-democrats/
What does this have to do with anything I've said?
The racial makeup of St. Louis county is 70.3% White.
The racial makeup of the city is 49.2% black, 47% White.
Not quite as overrepresented as it could be? Sure. that's true of pretty much everywhere in the world. Still overrepresented for black people nationally? Yes.
Again, what relevancy do the things you are saying have to do with anything I've said. You're not making any sense at all. There's no relevance to saying they are better represented in the county than they are nationally - nationally doesn't matter here! The county does.
You're making these claims of the constituency being all super crazy and bloodthirsty and hyper racist, but not backing it up with anything. The demographics and voting record, etc. fairly strongly suggest the opposite, if anything. So are you holding out on us with something in specific here making you think otherwise? Where are you getting this stuff from?
I'm claiming absolutely nothing of the sort. Do you think people have to be crazy to support the police officer who killed a known criminal? Do you have to be hyper racist to simply not care when a black criminal gets shot? You're making absurd statements.
What demographic and voting records indicate they're going to oppose the Prosecutor over this? Do you have a shred of evidence of why a white-flight county, bordering a majority black city, with a long history of police abuse and coverups against black citizens, a place which regularly tops the charts for "most racist place in America", located in the state that regularly tops the charts for the "most racist state in America", the home of the Dredd Scott decision, a county that is 23% black and yet 80+% of those black people live in one neighborhood in the county despite the fact that there is
no economic difference between them and the other neighbourhoods - the divisions are solely racial, and the neighborhood went from 70% white to 70% black over a mere 20 years as whites moved out when blacks moved in, a county where the Klu Klux Klan is
still active and handed out pamphlets at county high schools as late as 2007, a county where despite being in a largely black district bordering a majority black city, the average white resident does not interact with black people as a regular occurence, where most of the white counties have had larger protests
in support of Wilson than they have in support of Brown.
I've been talking to several people who live in St. Louis County, both white and black. I've read it's history, and what happens there even today.
And I wish I could have your confidence that the people of the county would oppose the prosecutor if he tossed the case, but I've seen no evidence of that and plenty to the contrary.
Unless you can provide any sort of argument, any sort of actual evidence that the people of St. Louis county would make McCulloch pay for mishandling the case instead of uniting in solidarity with the police (who, I may add, are from their own neighborhoods, NOT from Ferguson), I'm afraid I can't join you in your optimism.
And no, posting irrelevant statistics about how democrats are less racist than republicans isn't evidence of anything.
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