Rashida Tlaib didn’t outperform Harris because people’s highest priority is Palestine (it really fucking isn’t)
You really don’t think that the city with the most Arabs per capita in the country (and probably all the Americas) had a particular axe to grind about Gaza?
Michigan’s 12th Congressional District appears to top out at about 10% Arabs, at most. So no, they don’t in fact have enough influence to single-handedly cause a margin that large.
…the only relevant statistics I could find were for proxies like place of birth and language spoken at home.
Edit: I just realized you’re talking about Dearborn specifically, for some reason, even though that’s only part of Tlaib’s district and the voters in the rest of it also matter.
You really don’t think that the city with the most Arabs per capita in the country (and probably all the Americas) had a particular axe to grind about Gaza?
No, I really don’t.
Michigan’s 12th Congressional District appears to top out at about 10% Arabs, at most. So no, they don’t in fact have enough influence to single-handedly cause a margin that large.
Source? Because my Wikipedia link says this:
And this BBC article from this year says it’s the first Arab majority city in the US. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240429-dearborn-michigan-a-visit-to-the-first-arab-majority-city-in-the-us
What link? The only thing you’ve linked is that BBC article.
Wikipedia’s page on the 12th Congressional District certainly doesn’t say that.
Anyway, I tried to find that information, but in the sites I found…
…the only relevant statistics I could find were for proxies like place of birth and language spoken at home.
Edit: I just realized you’re talking about Dearborn specifically, for some reason, even though that’s only part of Tlaib’s district and the voters in the rest of it also matter.
Yes, because that’s that the article and topic of this thread is about.
It’s the district that elected her, not the city.
But this whole article is specifically referencing the vote count in Dearborn, not the overall vote for Tlaib or Harris.