Blacks Are a Loyal Voting Block

The Diversity Of Black Political Views

A Blog Review Blog!

The Diversity Of Black Political Views is a blog written by Perry Bacon Jr. and Dhrumil Mehta that covers the poll data and the history of black voters and their voting behavior. It is very interesting as they mention that black voters have consistently voted for the Democratic Party at very high rates in the last 12 presidential elections. In other words black people have voted for democrats exclusively since 1960. Since 1972 the Democrats have averaged 87% of the black vote as opposed to the Republican Party who had averaged around 10%. This blog is full of poll data and numbers to look over and consider. Perhaps the most counter intuitive aspect of this blog was the information that almost an equal number of blacks polled considered themselves Liberal or Conservative and almost 44% claimed to be moderate, or in between the two.

Overall trying to evaluate Bacon and Mehta’s sociological view is extremely difficult they are presenting an almost overwhelming amount of statistical data. Yes, the numbers can tell us things, but it is all very neutrally presented. Bacon and Mehta do not make an obvious attempt at an explanation for the data the way it stands, rather just present it. They make no assertions that seem to fly in the face of logic or common sense. The blog post simply presents facts and information; it is truly up to the reader to draw correlations between the different data that is presented.

This post is very useful in the subject of researching voting behavior of black and white people. There is plenty of data and links showing to where the data was gained. I would recommend someone who is interested in this subject to read this blog post and follow the links to the actual data sets themselves. This blog does not seem to have a hidden agenda or a “spin.”

Works Cited:

Bacon, Perry, and Dhrumil Mehta. “The Diversity Of Black Political Views.” FiveThirtyEight, FiveThirtyEight, 6 Apr. 2018, fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-diversity-of-black-political-views/.