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March 30, 2005
 
What's the matter with What's the Matter with Kansas?

Writing in the spring 2005 LiP Magazine, Tim Wise offers an answer: Frank's question is one word too short. And the last word is wrong.
The racial electoral divide, indeed, is larger than any of the others about which we constantly hear discussion.

So, for example, the oft-mentioned gender gap this year was only seven points, and the gap between those earning $30,000-$50,000 and those earning $100,000-$150,000 was only eight points.

Meanwhile, the gap between whites and people of color was a whopping 28 points. The black/white divide was 47 points: A modern record. . . .

Bottom line -- interracial voting differences were far greater than differences based on geography, gender, income, level of education, age, occupational status, religion or any other factor, raising the obvious if unasked question: Why?
The title of his essay is, "What's the Matter With White Folks? Racial Privilege, Electoral Politics and the Limits of Class Populism."