DC Demographics

I was having a discussion the other day about how Washington DC is the most biased region in the country and yet it serves as the seat of government.  I referenced much of what I had written in a previous blog.  It was then pointed out that DC is predominantly black which probably explained the heavier than usual tilt.  Good point.  I hadn't considered that.  Let's run the numbers.

First, let's look at the Demographics of DC.  Though DC once had a black population as high as 70%, it has fallen since the 1970s and now stands at 46%.  Here are the numbers:

Race	Percentage
Black	46
White	39.2
Latino	10.4
Asian	3
Other	1.4

I don't know quite where that stands in relation to other regions and can't offer a similar state that had clearly different results.  In the election, 312,575 votes were cast in Washington DC.  Assuming that the races had equal turnout rates, we can determine approximately how many voters from each race voted.  That gets us the following:

Race	Percentage	Voters
Black	46	143,785
White	39.2	122,529
Latino	10.4	32,508
Asian	3	9,377
Other	1.4	4,376

Looking only at the overall vote by racial demographics, the candidates had the following breakdown:

Race	Hillary %	Trump %
Black	88	8
White	37	58
Latino	65	29
Asian	65	29
Other	56	37

The only racial demographic that Trump won was white.  He trailed badly in all other groups.  With whites being a minority group in DC, a loss is a foregone conclusion but how badly.  Again, assuming that each cohort voted per the above, what are the end results?

 

Race	Hillary %	Voters	% x Voters
Black	88	143,785	126,530
White	37	122,529	45,336
Latino	65	32,508	21,130
Asian	65	9,377	6,095
Other	56	4,376	2,451
		Total:	201,542

 

Race	Trump %	Voters	% x Voters
Black	8	143,785	11,503
White	58	122,529	71,067
Latino	29	32,508	9,427
Asian	29	9,377	2,719
Other	37	4,376	1,619
		Total:	96,336

Purely by the racial demographics, Hillary crushes Trump by a 64.5% to 30.8% margin.  However, in the actual votes, Hillary pulverized Trump, 90.5% to 4.1%.  So, though race may have been a factor, it does not explain the colossal drubbing.  Setting aside race, what demographic subgroup saw something close to the 91% to 4% that we see in DC?  Hillary won Democrats by 89% to 9% and Liberals by 84% to 10%.

Hillary didn't win DC because of the plurality of black voters but because of the overwhelming majority of Liberal and Democratic voters.  Though Republicans may be on top right now, the Deep State remains Democrat and changing these hostile bureaucracies will be a Herculean task.  Here is a reason to revive the spoils system and wash out this Augean Stable on a regular basis.