Just to make my twin and his Cupcake jealous, I’m going to see Momix in four hours, and Cirque du Soleil in not all that long, too. nyaa nyaa.

This is an excellent rebuttal piece.

Unfortunately, she makes two assumptions:

1. Minorities are liberals by definition.
2. Conservative = Republican.

Numero Uno — Now, plenty of minorities are Democrats. Currently, most. But huge swaths of the Hispanic and Black communities are socially very conservative when it comes to family-values questions. It’s still a debatable point, but that’s a caveat that needs pointing out.

Numbah Two — by trying to cast matters as Dem-vs-Rep, she misses something important. Yes, better research is required. But the phenomenon itself is fairly widely noted. If you take a poll of people who identify as strongly liberal, and a similar poll of those identifying as strongly conservative… chances are, it’s the latter with the kids.