[مقالة]
| عنوان : |
The Democratic Coalition's Religious Divide: Why California Voters Supported Obama but Not Same-sex Marriage |
| نوع الوثيقة : |
نص مطبوع |
| مؤلفين : |
P. Miller, Kenneth, مؤلف |
| تاريخ النشر : |
2009 |
| مقالة في الصفحة: |
P46-P62 |
| اللغة : |
إنكليزي (eng) |
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
California, Proposition 8 , same-sex marriage, Barack Obama , civil rights , religion , Democratic Party, LatinosAfrican Americans |
| خلاصة : |
In California, the November 2008 election produced what seemed to be a contradictory result. While overwhelmingly supporting the election of the nation's first African American president, the state also approved Proposition 8, a measure that eliminated the state's newly-established right of same-sex couples to marry. This article argues that these results can be explained by a religious divide within the state's dominant Democratic coalition. The Democratic party's increasingly secular, culturally liberal wing strongly opposed efforts to ban same-sex marriage, with many viewing marriage rights for same-sex couples as the most important civil rights issue of our time. By contrast, exit polls and survey research indicated that the party's large constituency of African American and Latino voters supported Proposition 8. Blacks and Latinos are more religiously observant than the state as a whole, and tended to view the definition of marriage as a question of religion rather than civil rights. |
in Revue française d'étude américaines > 119 (Trimestrielle) . - P46-P62
[مقالة] The Democratic Coalition's Religious Divide: Why California Voters Supported Obama but Not Same-sex Marriage [نص مطبوع ] / P. Miller, Kenneth, مؤلف . - 2009 . - P46-P62. اللغة : إنكليزي ( eng) in Revue française d'étude américaines > 119 (Trimestrielle) . - P46-P62
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
California, Proposition 8 , same-sex marriage, Barack Obama , civil rights , religion , Democratic Party, LatinosAfrican Americans |
| خلاصة : |
In California, the November 2008 election produced what seemed to be a contradictory result. While overwhelmingly supporting the election of the nation's first African American president, the state also approved Proposition 8, a measure that eliminated the state's newly-established right of same-sex couples to marry. This article argues that these results can be explained by a religious divide within the state's dominant Democratic coalition. The Democratic party's increasingly secular, culturally liberal wing strongly opposed efforts to ban same-sex marriage, with many viewing marriage rights for same-sex couples as the most important civil rights issue of our time. By contrast, exit polls and survey research indicated that the party's large constituency of African American and Latino voters supported Proposition 8. Blacks and Latinos are more religiously observant than the state as a whole, and tended to view the definition of marriage as a question of religion rather than civil rights. |
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