Sentence examples for racial vote from inspiring English sources

"Any racial vote for Thompson simply disappeared," N.Y.U.'s Rosenthal noted.

That difference is largely the racial vote, I'd guess.

Over the subsequent decades, the creation of majority-minority districts to remedy racial vote dilution claims also contributed to these developments.

After the Act's initial success in combating tactics designed to deny minorities access to the polls, the Act became predominately used as a tool to challenge racial vote dilution.

Racial vote dilution is unlawful, and it is a logical consequence of the Bureau's refusal to count incarcerated people in their home communities.

The Justice Department's Web site says that "several lawsuits of this nature are filed every year," but since Bush was sworn in the Voting Section has filed just one contested racial vote-discrimination case, in rural Colorado, which it lost.

Last month's Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act served as a reminder of the long history of racial voting suppression in this country.

The pair of charts below reflect the racial voting breakdowns in 2004 and 2008, according to the national exit polls in those years.

"It's really not black turnout that matters; it's the gap between black and white turnout," said David A. Bositis, who examines racial voting patterns for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Two pervasive and persistent myths about racial voting in the modern South are behind the notion that Mr. Obama might win in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi.

If the referendum fails, Mr. Morial said, he would have few options but to wait for the country to outgrow its racial voting patterns.