perfidy

The Kansas City Star is reporting that while Dean has attacted much support from young whites, his success in attracting minorities has been rather limited. The report goes on to detail how minorities are less lekely to be internet users than whites, and that this shows that Dean's internet fundraising is therefore inherently racist.

Just kidding.

Apparently, Dean's stances on gun control and gay marriage are limiting his appeal to blacks.

But this is all nonsense, since blacks and minorities will vote in huge majorities for whomever the Democrats put on the ballot. Jews and Blacks have historically voted as much as 9 to 1 in favor of Democrats.

Blacks have long been taken for granted by the Dems, and have suffered the most from Democratic policies on the national and local levels. They won't increase their electoral clout until there is some perception that their votes are up for grabs. Blacks used to be traditionally Republican, before the evil Goldwater pissed off Martin Luther King. If blacks in significant numbers, even as small as 25%, started voting Republican, the Democrats would lose the key bloc that allows them to maintain parity with their opponents. They'd have a very hard time keeping seats in Congress. That should make Black leaders more willing to negotiate for what they want, rather than remain the lackies of the Democratic Party.