For pundits to expostulate that "The ____ Vote" gave ANY candidate ANY victory is an exercise in selective presentation.
If every ethnic "bloc" is represented by physical wooden blocks, which one "put the candidate over the top" literally depends on which one you choose to stack on the bottom of the pile, and which one you choose to place on top of all the rest.
That is, if any ethnic group votes as a bloc at all.
Born 1945 in Los Angeles. Worked from 1998-2016 as adjunct teacher at University of California at Irvine Ext. teaching English as a second language.
Served three years in US Army Military Police at Erlangen, Germany 1966-68.
1970-1973- Criminal Investigator with US Customs
1973-1995 Criminal investigator with Drug Enforcement Administration. Stationed in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Milan, Italy, Pittsburgh and Office of Training, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va. until retirement.
Author of Erlangen-An American's History of a German Town-University Press of America 2005,
The Story of Papiamentu- A Study in Slavery and Language, University Press of America, 2002, and
The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics-Their History and Development, University Press of America, 2000.
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For pundits to expostulate that "The ____ Vote" gave ANY candidate ANY victory is an exercise in selective presentation.
If every ethnic "bloc" is represented by physical wooden blocks, which one "put the candidate over the top" literally depends on which one you choose to stack on the bottom of the pile, and which one you choose to place on top of all the rest.
That is, if any ethnic group votes as a bloc at all.
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