Cuyahoga County 66% White, And 66% For Issue 6...6...6... Isn't That Convenient

I was just observing a graphic of Issue 6 voting results [1], on Issue 6 sponsor site Cleveland.com, and noticed how lily-white the voting for this issue clearly was.

In 98.4% white Hunting Valley, 248 people voted for Issue 6, and 18 against... 93% for Issue 6

Where Issue 6 first festered - Mayor Bruce Akers' 89% white Pepper Pike [2] - 83% for Issue 6.

In Issue 6 Grand Mother Rawson's 30% black [3] Shaker Heights... 74% of voters were for Issue 6...

666 Sister Sutherland's 98% white Bay Village [4] voted 77% for 6...

In 42% white Cleveland [5], Issue 6 only received 57%. The Plain Dealer does not break their Issue 6 voting analysis down by race or by ward, in Cleveland - this would probably reveal stronger correlations between pro-Issue 6 voting and being white.

More interesting would be the correlation between Pro-Issue 6 funding and being white.

In total numbers, in Cuyahoga County, the 2008 population is estimated at 66.8% white, and Issue 6 received 66.2% voting in favor [6]. Isn't that convenient.

It is estimated [7], in the past 8 years the white population of Northeast Ohio declined by over 75,000, while the black population stood strong. as a backbone of our region. Blacks are not running away, but their representation in the community has been diminished to a point where regional decision-making is so diluted, and regionalized, that the regional 66% majority white population has eliminated fair representation of the large, stable, important yet highly-localized minority black population.

That seems to have been the point of Issue 6, and it succeeded.

That has set in place an environment for great racial and social turmoil, making this a very unsafe region for the foreseeable future, for people of all races.

I believe the new Cuyahoga County administration vision set in place by Issue 6 will make this public safely problem even worse, and I am considering relocating from the region as a result.