If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and the invited speakers were black, it would inevitably, and correctly, be referred to as a black political event.

So I’m going to call the Tea Party convention I just covered in Myrtle Beach, S.C., what it was: a white political event.

The attendees were friendly, polite and deeply committed to the cause of imposing a no-compromise conservative agenda on the U.S. government and the Republican party in particular.

But, in a state that’s 30 per cent black, there wasn’t a single black face at the event. Or any young faces that I could see. …..

An interesting analysis from north of the border.  Make sure you read the little sidebar about Governor Nikki Haley, the only non-white person in attendance at the Myrtle Beach convention.