Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
In the US, leftist redistributive politicians say that minorities (read blacks, as those fools don't realize we have other than black and Hispanic minorities) = poor. If you listen to left leaning editors, politicians, etc they always claim that women and minorities will be hardest hit. That's one of the ways that the Democratic Party has maintained its control over the black vote after they lost them as slaves, thru perceived class inequalities.
The simplified "ethnic minority (or blacks/Hispanics) = poor" statement seems to be statistically correct, as would the assumption that black people are likely to be overproportionally hit by the "secession".
However, that does not make the secession "racially motivated" IMO as the motivation is unlikely to be "we want to show the blacks" but rather "we want to keep our money" (and the latter statement is not intended to be evaluative from my side - as it is of course to a certain extent justified and only a rare minority of highly philanthropic nature does not share this sentiment at least to a ceratin extent)