A lot of people seem to be misreading OP's point about the right being
disproportionately ethnic minority as implying that it is
majority ethnic minority.
A single black Klansman is disproportionate, given the stated aims of the KKK!
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>>2546215left-wingers have high cultural capital, while right-wingers have low cultural capital. this divide is more fundamental than the racial divide, which is why you get the ironic situation that low-cultural-capital ethnic minorities will team up with racists because racism, too, is a low status belief. meanwhile anti-racism is high-status, so you'll have an anti-racist communist org which is 100% white.
>>2555121you're basically right in the second part, but the case of party leaders is muddied a little by events and general cultural stereotypes.
when a woman leads a socdem party, people think she's distrustworthy for showing desirable socdem traits like being caring, empathetic, etc. because these are all female stereotypes anyway, they serve as a disadvantage. meanwhile in a right-wing party, you have to show everyone that you're a sociopathic bastard - which neutralizes the feminine stereotypes.
as for ethnic minorities, in britain the case is more mixed. Welsh Labour and the SNP both had ethnic minority leaders who held public office (albeit briefly, because the Welsh one was a crook and the SNP one took some terrible advice and blew up his own coalition.) overlapping with Sunak, and even Sunak (unlike Thatcher) was electorally unsuccessful.
>>2555128It's not hitlerite nonsense to talk about cultural capital. It's not some transcendent truth that certain races are high/low capital or anything like that. It's always culturally contextual.
It's most interesting to discuss precisely within the context of white people. What is the strongest predictor of how a white boy will vote? Well, in the data it's education, but if you're going by vibes, it's how cool he is.
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