Todd Zywicki looks at “Mormon-Bashing By Anti-Prop 8 Activists“:
So let me get this right–those who are upset about the passage of Proposition 8 in California have decided that the thing to do is to pick on the Mormons? So one marginalized group decides that the way to go is to vent their outrage against another marginalized group in society? Unbelievable.
Relying on Exit Polls are dicey, of course. But according to the Exit Polls, the decisive difference in Proposition 8’s passage was two reasons. First, 70% of black voters supported it. There were 10,357,002 votes case on Prop 8. The winning margin was 492,830 votes. And they were 10% of the electorate. So that means there were 1,035,700 votes cast by black voters. That right there provided a difference of 414,280 votes. If I’m doing my math right, that is 84% of the winning margin. There was an article in the Washington Post on this today. A majority of Hispanic voters also supported Proposition 8.
The second group that strongly supported Prop 8 appear to be Married people with children under the age of 18. Married people were 62% of the vote and voted 60-40 in favor; people with children under the age of 18 were 40% of the electorate and voted 64-36 in favor. 31 percent identified themselves as “Married with Children” (it doesn’t say whether that is minor children) and they voted 68-32 in support.
So if the protestors want to vent their outrage, maybe they oughta go over to the local black church and call them “bigots” and chant “shame on you.”
They did. As Glenn Reynolds writes, “My goodness. All this hope, change and unity is getting kind of scary.”
(For some earlier thoughts on William Gibson’s meme, popularized in the Blogosphere by April Gavaza and Mark Steyn, click here and follow the links.)
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