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Education played bigger role than race in approving gay marriage ban

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The level of voters’ education — not the large numbers of blacks who turned out for the first time to cast ballots for Barack Obama — best explains the passage of a Florida law banning gay marriage, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Many pundits claimed that newly registered black voters inspired [...]

Filed under Black, Florida, Politics, Race, Research on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.