Star Member Triana (19,810 posts)
White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas, too
I am well aware that Wendy Davis lost the Texas governor’s race by a wide margin. It’s salt in a very personal wound. Her campaign meant a lot to me, and to so many other Texas women — thousands of whom stood in line for hours to cast their ballots in support. Greg Abbott won anyway, and he won by a lot. But he didn’t win by a lot across the demographic landscape.
I went to the Texas Tribune first for a dissection of the election results, and one piece of information struck me as particularly… wrong. The Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34) and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and African-Americans (93-7).†Last time I checked, though, there were thousands upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what about their votes?
As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:
You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried†women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,†and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women...
THE REST: http://www.salon.com/2014/11/06/white_women_didnt_just_fail_wendy_davis_they_failed_the_rest_of_texas_too/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025799926 Laura PourMeADrink (16,724 posts)
4. Excellent article - thanks ! I am in that 32%. What I have noticed
since I moved here is that NO ONE, EVER...talks politics. NO ONE. So, most of these results are based on party line voting, IMHO. And, NO ONE I have met seems to give a shit about the masses one iota. They hate "Obamacare" (say the word like they would say Hitler). They hate "freeloaders" - welfare, unemployment, etc. And, last year - I actually walked out and left a family (in-law) Thanksgiving weekend - after listening to two of my masters level educated health care professional SIL's complain about ACA.
Whatever, you sorry c***.
For what it's worth, as a native Texan who knows a lot of cracka-ass women,
I don't think many of them sit around all day thinking about the things Wendy Davis requires that they think about. There was a sense that Abortion Barbie and liberals hold this single medical procedure and the female anatomy associated with it as a sort of totem, the sine qua non of womanhood and a woman's existence. This was the key assumption liberals made as they miscalculated the "War on Women," that men obsess over controlling the privates of women and women do nothing but suffer under that yoke.
In reality, men are more likely to obsess over seeing and feeling the privates of women, and women are more likely to want them to. Abortion Barbie and her curt coterie of skanky angry harpies couldn't understand that then, and they sure as hell don't understand it now, and this article is proof. When your model for a good man is Charles Clymer or Chris Hayes, and your model for evil man is anyone else, you're going to be wrong about what people want and why they want it.
In simpler terms: white women don't want what that emotionally disturbed assface woman was selling.
Oh, and Sandra Fluke lost, too.
