Black v. Brown

Nice to see Matt Yglesias debunking one of the dumber story lines coming out this election--the idea that Latinos will gravitate to Clinton, because Obama is black. The only thing more annoying than lefties who talk about a black-brown coalition, is reporters who spout breathlessly about a black-brown divide. Typically these folks conflate Cuban-Americans in Miami with Dominican-Americans in New York and Mexican-Americans in L.A. But they aren't the same, in each case you find that each groups relation to the local black population is different. That doesn't mean things are great, but this overarching "black-brown" theory  of conflict is over-inflated.