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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The myth of the "Hispanic" vote
Now that Stephen Harper has an open road to having the longest-serving minority government in nearly 80 years (or the longest this side of William Mackenzie-King), it looks like my country will be the only one in North America with a national election.
As such, there may be more interest in my theory of the "Hispanic" vote: namely, that such a thing is as mythical as the "francopohone" vote up there (that "monolith" that split practically three ways in the last Quebec provincial election).
Posted by D.J. McGuire on February 26, 2008 in International Politics | Permalink
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There seems to be a little definitional problem here.
The only relevant "Hispanic vote" in America is the situation where illegal Mexican aliens are encouraged and supported and abbetted in fraudulently voting in American elections. And those voters exist and have changed election results in past elections here.
Other than that, your focus (when you wish to shift your issue away from the illegal immigration criminal voting activity over to the Democrat Party issue of "identity politics" and "ethnic mob politics" and "interest group politics" and all the other anti-freedom aspects of those who promote Communism-Totalitarianism), on the back of someone's ethnicity, in a free melting pot nation where you cannot find ten people who are third generation Americas who have "pure" ethnic connection to their "old country," is a typical Lefty Democrat RINO phony "Conservative Republican" non-issue, but one that is unendingly "covered" in the "main stream media." Unless "we" (i.e. the phony Communist media) succeed in creating a balkanized country of little Quebecs and Kosovos as the anti-American media and professional politicians (like horrid McCain) want.
Posted by: Conrad-USA | 2008-02-27 8:47:25 AM
"in a free melting pot nation where you cannot find ten people who are third generation Americas who have "pure" ethnic connection to their "old country,"
Talk about Marxist-liberal bull.
1.) What is a "pure" ethnic connection?
2.)Discerning the Ancestry of European Americans in Genetic Association Studies
"Genetic association studies analyze both phenotypes (such as disease status) and genotypes (at sites of DNA variation) of a given set of individuals. The goal of association studies is to identify DNA variants that affect disease risk or other traits of interest. However, association studies can be confounded by differences in ancestry. For example, misleading results can arise if individuals selected as disease cases have different ancestry, on average, than healthy controls. Although geographic ancestry explains only a small fraction of human genetic variation, there exist genetic variants that are much more frequent in populations with particular ancestries, and such variants would falsely appear to be related to disease. In an effort to avoid these spurious results, association studies often restrict their focus to a single continental group. European Americans are one such group that is commonly studied in the United States. Here, we analyze multiple large European American datasets to show that "important differences in ancestry exist even within European Americans," and that components roughly corresponding to northwest European, southeast European, and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are the major, consistent sources of variation. We provide an approach that is able to account for these ancestry differences in association studies even if only a small number of genes is studied."
With a **very** small number of genetic markers, the geographic origin of European Americans can be identified.
Posted by: DJ | 2008-02-27 9:45:30 AM
The monolithic nature of the Francophone vote, if you examine the federal election results for the last century, is definitely not mythical.
Posted by: DJ | 2008-02-27 9:47:04 AM
DJ, I agree.
Why does the BLOC Quebecois exist if the Francophone vote isn't a voting BLOCK?
No myth there that I can see.
Mr. McGuire can be silly sometimes.
Posted by: Speller | 2008-02-27 10:07:04 AM
>"Stephen Harper has an open road to having the longest-serving minority government in nearly 80 years (or the longest this side of William Mackenzie-King"
D.J. McGuire on February 26, 2008
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, until April 20, 1968, as the head of two back-to-back minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.
Posted by: Speller | 2008-02-27 10:33:53 AM
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