Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Racism and Mathematics

Since I will be moving to Louisville this upcoming August, I've been checking out the Louisville Courier-Journal's website to see whats going on in that city, and the State of Kentucky. Today was the day for the Democratic party primaries in the states, and it seems to me that someone over there didn't really like Hillary Clinton very much, so he declared that
Kentucky = a bunch of racist hicks

Lets see how the math works:
As C-J Washington reporter Jim Carroll pointed out earlier tonight, about 20 percent of Kentucky voters said race was a determining factor when it came to deciding for whom they would vote. And of those people, 90 percent said they voted for Hillary Clinton. The mathematical conclusion is pretty obvious.

90% of 20% = 18% of the whole population.
18% - Holy Shit Batman!
Lets visualize the numbers here for those who lack the imagination - like my humble self over here:

So, if the small piece of the pie does care about race, does that make the whole state Racist?!!!
The other question that I wonder about is would the same statement be made if all of those who favored race were black?

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4 Comments:

At Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 2:39:00 AM EDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

dude, you are deluding yourself. Racism is the biggest factor for Kentucky and states like it. Not everyone is ignorant enough to admit this to a poll-taker or journalist.

Personally I find it appalling, but it's the truth, like it or not.

 
At Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 3:51:00 AM EDT , Blogger Aladin said...

I guess my next two years there will be a very interesting social experiment.

 
At Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 9:39:00 AM EDT , Blogger Amanda Rudd said...

I'm laughing.

The running is killing my knees and I think I gave up on the half marathon. I'm trying to push through the pain.

 
At Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 10:46:00 PM EDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah Obama is getting 90% of the black vote lol..!!

 

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