The Dixie Chick vote.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

My son Christian teaches social studies in a public high school in San Bernardino, Calif. The school's population is divided into thirds of black, white, and Hispanic, and tends toward the lower half of the economic scale. This summer, he polled his world history class for political preferences after Kerry's convention speech.

The response: "White males and third-generation Hispanic males were uniformly Republican. Blacks and first- and second-generation Hispanics were uniformly Democratic. The only swing group is white girls. Half lean Republican and half Democratic, and several keep changing their minds."

Chris's personal observation is that this kind of split among females extends up to the age of 35. Among the older, 25-35, California...