– Steve Sailer’s review of Charles Murray is finally up.
– Chinese chicks love me.
– Samuel L. Jackson understands democracy better than most.
In an interview with Ebony magazine, Jackson explained, "I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them … That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me."
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Has anyone taken a stab at slicing Murray’s data geographically? I mainly mean urban/non-, but coastal/non-, north/south, east/west might be interesting.
One of the questions I’m curious about: are these supposed virtuous elites actually in the zip codes next to the dissipated proles?
Murray has some good maps. The elites are highly concentrated in big cities and in clusters within those cities.
Mr Jackson’s theory fails to explain how O won the election.
I’m not so sure.
Maybe “people vote for people that look like what they think they should look like.”
For blacks, Obama kind of looks like them (he’s East African, but try explaining why that matters). For liberal whites, Obama is what they aspire to look like. Not to be black necessarily, but he really is the cynosure of new-upper-class tastes. That’s a man who doesn’t eat at Ouback Steakhouse.
I haven’t read the book, but it seems to me Murray’s Bubble idea doesn’t really apply to people who might read Foseti. No?
“So, in fact, I am isolated from mainstream America, although my bubble is one of its own making: I listen to Bach, but not NPR… I love mountaineering, but I eschew wearing technical clothing from REI in the city. I am WP, but not SWPL.”