# Any demographic support one party as overwhelmingly as African-Americans?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 17, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-demographic-support-one-party-as-overwhelmingly-as-african-americans/768849 "2016-10-17T16:43:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-demographic-support-one-party-as-overwhelmingly-as-african-americans/768849/21 "2016-10-17T20:27:54Z")

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In the 2012 election, 73% of Asian-Americans voted democrat.

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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-demographic-support-one-party-as-overwhelmingly-as-african-americans/768849/22 "2016-10-17T20:37:54Z")

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> [@Dorjan](#):
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> In the 2012 election, 73% of Asian-Americans voted democrat.

Again - that’s very different than 90-97%.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-demographic-support-one-party-as-overwhelmingly-as-african-americans/768849/23 "2016-10-17T21:20:33Z")

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Just what are we counting as a “demographic”? For instance, African-Americans have a very high support for Democrats, but I expect that African-American women would be even higher. Or homosexual African-American women, or young homosexual African-American women, and so on. Eventually, if you overlap enough demographics and slice them finely enough, you can get a “demographic” of a single person, who supports a particular party 100%.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-demographic-support-one-party-as-overwhelmingly-as-african-americans/768849/24 "2016-10-18T10:20:28Z")

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92.8% percent of South African Whites vote for the Democratic Alliance in the 2014 elections.

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