How Did Brown People in Minnesota Vote?
I’ve been looking around for exit poll data on Minnesota’s voting habits, and pretty much everything I’ve seen did not collect enough data on any individual racial minority group for it to be statistically significant, though some did provide some data on the aggregate racial minority responses. You can’t blame it on Minnesota’s unique restrictions on exit polling, which were struck down. But exit polls are not to be trusted anyway.
(I had to go back and change “non-white” which, ironically, seemed more inclusive to “racial minority” which still bothers me.)
The New York Times has national exit polling data on the presidential race.
The early exit polling data the Star Tribune has did not include enough non-white people to provide a representative sample.
MSNBC also did not have enough non-white people to provide a representative sample beyond an aggregate non-white group, but they did have a number of questions on how the race of the candidate impacted people’s decisions. CNN had a similar, more-detailed breakdown.
Short answer is that Minnesotans of color, much like the rest of the nation, broke more heavily for Barack Obama than white voters. Completely unsurprising.
