Who can forget all of the seething racism that followed the passing of California’s Prop 8 and Florida’s Amendment 2? It was so gross that I’m not even going to link to anything about it.
Instead, I am going focus on the new study out of the University of Florida that found education levels, not race, better predicted support of same-sex marriage in Florida. Five times better:
The study found education was about five times as important as race in determining whether a county’s residents favored the ban. The results contradict claims that newly registered black voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama were a socially conservative group that can be credited with passing the ban.
“They are movable in terms of this issue,” said Dan Smith, a political science professor and study co-author.
. . . Controlling for political and socioeconomic factors, the study found each additional 1 percent of a county’s population with bachelor’s degrees correlated with a 1 percent decrease in support for the amendment.
This study’s results are in line with NGLTF’s study (PDF) that reached a similar conclusion.
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