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geori on Nov 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Myth of American Meritocracy

It's not a theory, it's a fact that people vote aspirationally.

zjelveh on Nov 29, 2012 [–]

It's also about race. White people think their tax dollars are going to non-whites. Hopefully that changes w/ the demographic shift

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