My neighborhood in Brooklyn has far more small business owners than any place I have lived before. And it is also about the most Democrat-leaning place I have lived. In 2008, I think one of my kids classes voted 22-1 for Obama in their mock election.
On the other hand, Staten Island is solidly Republican. And who lives there? Cops and firemen.
How about a similar related paradox?
ReplyDeleteStatistician Douglas Hubbard regularly advises public sector agencies and private corporations on "decision analysis".
In his conversations, he is amazed to find that a very large number of public sector workers see the private sector as the beacon of efficiency and the public sector as a pit of ineptitude and failure.
And when he speaks to executives in private businesses, he finds they often wish they were like the military or other government-based departments in their analyses and achievements.
Race?
ReplyDeleteStaten Island has bigger white population.
Than my neighborhood? (I am comparing SI to my neighborhood, not to Brooklyn.)
DeleteIn any case, I think everyone of these liberal entrepreneurs that I know is white.
Another paradox: America's most successful private schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.) tend to be more liberal than your average state school.
ReplyDeleteI saw a gay couple at Chick-fil-A today.
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