{"id":4703,"date":"2010-01-26T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:20:23","slug":"misunderstanding-the-under-30-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstanding Race and the Under-30 Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agenda.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NzliNDhhMmRhOTY3MzE0ZGYzYzU3ZjBhMWY2ZDQ5ZTY=\">Reihan Salam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that America elected an\u00a0African\u00a0American\u00a0president is a tremendous source of pride to these [under-30] voters, I&#8217;m guessing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems fundamentally off to me. My impression is that the pride in electing an African American &#8211; the sense of pride that America has done so &#8211; seems to belong more to the older generation. Those of my generation &#8211; the under-30 voters (of which Salam himself was when Obama was elected) &#8211; aren&#8217;t proud Obama was elected. If anything, we&#8217;re relieved. Some were confident he would win; others were afraid our country was too racist &#8211; but I&#8217;m not sure I know many people who were &#8220;proud&#8221; that we weren&#8217;t so racist as a nation as to block the best man from winning in a time of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone agree or disagree with these impressions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reihan Salam: The fact that America elected an\u00a0African\u00a0American\u00a0president is a tremendous source of pride to these [under-30] voters, I&#8217;m guessing. This seems fundamentally off to me. My impression is that the pride in electing an African American &#8211; the sense of pride that America has done so &#8211; seems to belong more to the older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,4,458],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-reihan-salam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1dR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}