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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Footvoting: Blacks Flee Blue States In Droves. ?When whites leave failing bl?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Footvoting: Blacks Flee Blue States In Droves. “When whites leave failing blue cities and states, the pundits call this racism: all those white Californians fleeing Nancy Pelosi?s utopia for less ambitious jurisdictions where ordinary people can do things like get jobs and buy homes are clearly pathetic trailer trash hicks too dumb, too selfish and above all too racist to understand the gloriously multicultural blue beauty of California today. So what are we going to call the young, educated Blacks making similar choices? Dumb cracker racists? . . . Most Blacks of course still vote blue at the ballot box, but more and more of them are voting red with their feet.”

Punish talent and talent will flee. Skin color is unrelated. Plus this: “The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks is the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States.” It’s all about oligarchy, not egalitarianism.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).