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But yes, if the gay marriage bill is defeated in MD, black will be blamed for it, even if they're not to blame. Just like in Cali.[/quote]I had not heard about the prop 8 data being wrong. Can you link to correct data?[/quote]

I can and I'm very happy to do so. Also, I'd like to point out that black people make up a little more than 6 percent of California's population, so the blame they received for the passage of Prop 8 was both laughable and predictable.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/06/BANB154OS1.DTL

Also, here's an article from 2008, when it was still thought that 70% of black voters in CA supported Prop 8. The writer made a very interesting point, although one that most people ignored in favor of blaming black people.

[quote]Some conservative commentators, who didn’t have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout. “It was the black vote that voted down gay marriage,” Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, insisted triumphantly—and, it turns out, wrongly.[b] If exit polling is to be believed, seventy per cent of California’s African-American voters did indeed vote yes on Prop. 8, as did upward of eighty per cent of Republicans, conservatives, white evangelicals, and weekly churchgoers[size=18]. But the initiative would have passed, barely, even if not a single African-American had shown up at the polls.[/size][/b][/quote]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/081201taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true#ixzz1uU12iBzv

Again, religiosity, not race.[/quote]

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