Even the recently formed United Democratic Movement, an effort by an Afrikaner, Roelf Meyer, and an African, Bantu Holomisa, to gather multi-racial support, is favoured by just 4% of voters.
Ms. Preckwinkle, who is black, has the most cross-racial support of any of the candidates, with endorsements from Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, as well as Democratic organizations in such largely white suburban townships as New Trier and Northfield.
This narrative describes the Democratic Party as building its base on multi-racial support and lower income whites.
To Hayashi, this means "building alliances across movements for social and racial justice, supporting local transgender and gender-nonconforming leadership and organizing movements, and protecting folks in the immediate-term as best we can".
The former financed much of the campaign to repeal marriage rights, and the latter, according to exit polls, were the ethnic or racial group supporting the proposition by the largest margin.
A white supremacist plans to hold a rally today to support racial profiling by the police.
Since racial tolerance diminishes support for candidates who appear to make racial appeals, politicizing the racial attitudes of these voters is unlikely to be an effective strategy.
And for many whites, the government's increasingly hostile racial rhetoric and support of the recent spate of land invasions became increasingly intolerable.
If there were ever an illustration of Professor Bell's theory that whites will support racial justice only to the extent that it is in their interests, this would seem to be it.
I don't think you can say that Romney had a racial rainbow of support, exactly, but I do want to answer their basic question: did Romney flush away a victory that the economy should have delivered to him?
Such tests also support racial threat theory because they show that a strong negative relationship between African American presence and liberal roll-call votes persisted throughout this period.
