One of the major fault lines within the Democrats' constituency is the latent hostility between blacks and Hispanics. The media likes to pretend that only Republicans are capable of internal splits, and when compounded with the PC notion that all minorities are oppressed and therefore unified in opposition the The Man, this produces a studious disinterest in any focus on antagonisms between the nation's two largest minorities.The actual politicians, of course, understand that this is nonsense. Hillary is very aggressively pursuing Hispanic support, and while publicly courting establishment black leadership, may well be resigned to racial solidarity luring many black primary voters to Barack Obama. Blacks, after all, comprise one quarter of the Democratic base. Ben Smith, blogging at The Politico, notes that Hillary has gotten an endorsement from Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa:It's a big endorsement, and one that she seems to have won the classic Hillary way.A recent New Yorker profile...(Read Full Post)