Re: [Marxism] opiate (????) of the masses (was: Moral Values and exit polls)

[andrew pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

Even more specifically, mostly Black and Latin. But note the quote from
the woman who hesitated to vote for Bush because of his economic
policies! There's gold in them thar hills!
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:03:03 -0500 Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 11:33, Les Schaffer wrote:
>
> > An article in the NY Times yesterday claims that poor
> > working class people are signing on to fundamentalist groups and
> voting
> > accordingly.
>
> more specifically, the article made the point that these people were
> from
> previously Democratic strongholds in NYC area.
>
> """
> The Political Conversion of New York's Evangelicals
>
>  By ANDREA ELLIOTT
>
>  Published: November 14, 2004
>
> The signs are all around. Storefront churches dot the commercial
> landscapes of
> the Bronx and Queens. Twice as many churchgoers - about 15,000 -
> pray weekly
> at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, compared with five
> years ago.
> Some 200,000 New Yorkers tune in daily to Radio Vision Cristiana, an
> AM radio
> station. And last March, thousands of evangelicals gathered on the
> steps of
> the State Supreme Court in the Bronx to protest the idea of same-sex
>
> marriage."
>
>
> full at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/nyregion/14evangelical.html
>
> les schaffer
>
>
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