Using US census data (2000), what is the ethnic split (white, black,
other) of non-urban poor (US census definition)?  I would like gross
numbers.  Please provide national totals plus regional breakdown:
North, Midwest, South, West.

For each group in each region (national total as well), what were the
splits in the 2000 election for Gore, Bush, other?  Exit polling is
probably the source for this one and the results probably will have to
estimated percentages rather than gross counts.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 20 May 2004 02:12 PDT

Dear Rhoneyman, 

While I am not sure that your first question could be answered (I'll
look into it after I would understand your question better), the
second is problematic: you have two variables: region (what do you
mean by that? your division of North, Midwest, South, West? or maybe
by States? or maybe counties?) and the non-urban poor themselves. Now,
exit polls might be alltogether a problem, even if we found data (say)
by each ballot, because it assumes (which I have no proof of) that
there are certain ballots where non-urban poor have voted.

Couple more problems with other types of polls/data collection: 
- This population tends to vote less
- When voting, this population tends to be less trusting of polsters
and might even lie, to fit what they think the pollster whated to
hear.

Basically, you're asking, "how did non-urban poor vote in 2000" in a
certain region and nationally, but we have no tools to collect the
second part of your data - if we use exit polls, there are no elements
of economic class on the regional level you're talking about.

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