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Thread ID: 20194 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-09-13
2005-09-13 23:27 | User Profile
New York City now has White Minority Electorate
N.Y.ââ¬â¢s Ever-Changing Electorate: Next, the White Minority
Sam Roberts, New York Times, Sept. 13
Todayââ¬â¢s Democratic primary is the prelude to a potentially revolutionary turning point in New York Cityââ¬â¢s traditional tribal politics: In November, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites are projected to constitute a minority of the voters in a mayoral general election.
The impact of the shift, coupled with changes wrought by term limits and public campaign financing, is already apparent in the choices voters face today. Polls say the front-runner for the Democratic nomination is Fernando Ferrer, a Puerto Rican raised in the South Bronx. Among his three challengers is C. Virginia Fields, a black woman who grew up in the South. William C. Thompson Jr., who is seeking a second term as comptroller, is black. And dozens of black, Hispanic and Asian candidates are competing for borough presidencies and City Council seats.
But rather than guaranteeing minority domination of New York government, the demographic changes have just made the cityââ¬â¢s politics more complex. A surge of new immigrantsââ¬âmany of them not bound, like their predecessors, to the Democratic Partyââ¬âhas so diversified black, Hispanic and Asian voters that some of the monolithic blocs and natural coalitions once taken for granted among those minority groups no longer apply.
Non-Hispanic whites became a minority of the cityââ¬â¢s overall population in the 1980ââ¬â¢s, but still made up a majority of voting-age citizens, registered voters and, according to exit polls and other surveys, New Yorkers who actually turned out on Election Day. It is estimated that non-Hispanic whites were 52 percent of the electorate in the 2001 mayoral race and 51 percent of the cityââ¬â¢s voters in last yearââ¬â¢s presidential election.
ââ¬ÅThis is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority,ââ¬Â Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant, said.
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Between 1990 and 2000, the number of non-Hispanic New Yorkers declined by 11 percent. The Hispanic population grew 21 percent.
According to exit polls, non-Hispanic whites made up 56 percent of the electorate in 1989, 55 percent in 1993, 53 percent in 1997 and 52 percent in 2001. They made up about 48 percent of Democratic voters in the 2001 primary and 47 percent in the runoff between Mr. Ferrer and Mark Green.
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The white minority is going to get smaller by one very soon. Not too long ago I sold my single-family house for a ridiculous sum and moved into an apartment in a better part of Queens. But not for long. The writing has been on the wall about NY and in fact all cities and many suburbs across the country (mostly it's graffitti). So I'm going where it's still mostly white and I will pray that enough of us wake up to make a stand. Meanwhile one of the first things I'm going to do in my new locale is join my cousin's gun club. She and her husband both say that membership is up. And soon it's going to go up by one.
New York, once truly great town, we will miss you.
Mike from soon-to-be-not Queens, or
Mike from the real, Archie Bunker Queens which like Brigadoon or Shangri-La is now only in our memories (Who knows? Maybe she'll rise again, but I doubt it).
Posted by Mike from Queens at 5:54 PM on September 13
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2005-09-14 00:07 | User Profile
humpty dumpty sat on a wall :thumbsup:
2005-09-14 01:23 | User Profile
As an international observer, I find it very, very sad. New York is disappearing, and so is California, and Florida, and Texas. Oh God! You're being dispossessed 25 years before us. How will we overcome that? :sad:
2005-09-14 02:15 | User Profile
The superb French novelist, Jean Raspail, set some of the most chillingly grisly (if less remembered) scenes of Camp of the Saints in Third-World NYC...
2005-09-14 04:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.]The superb French novelist, Jean Raspail, set some of the most chillingly grisly (if less remembered) scenes of Camp of the Saints in Third-World NYC...[/QUOTE]
Just currently, Jean Raspail is vilified and sued by the LICRA (League against Racism and Antisemitism) because he wrote that in a mainstream newspaper:
[url]http://www.mnforsustain.org/camp_of_the_saints_means_to_be_french_raspail_j.htm[/url] (slight error in translation, Marianne is not the Statue of Liberty)
[url]http://www.vdare.com/gottfried/hysteria.htm[/url]