People tired of having to pay handouts, now trying to do something about it.

[Ser Clegane]

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)

[Hosakawa Tito]

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)

I agree with Ser on this one. I don't think it would matter if it was "poor white trash in da trailerpark". "boyz in da hood" or boyz in da barrio" et al. However, playing the racial card gets more attention. I feel an appearance by Reverend Al is imminent.

[Marshal Murat]

What about the Asian minority? Why aren't they outraged by this? It's because despite being a minority they aren't affected by this.

So it is race related, or it is a bunch of people angry to see people using their democratic privilage to seperate themselves from a problem.

Or it could be something else entirely....