Surnames and voting

[jimrtex]

When Alvin Greene was nominated for the Senate, there was a claim that his spelling with three e's was recognizable as black.

But among South Carolinians, Green's are 8125D:2212R, while Greene's are 2562D:1515R.

Nguyen is the 63rd most frequent last name in the US.

Riley can be spelled Reilly (and several other ways).  The former is much more frequent in the South: Alabama 1874:107, Texas 6227:886; while in the Northeast both spelling are about as common: New York 4038:4860; Massachusetts 2547:2497.  Riley is more likely to be Protestant, Reilly to be Catholic.  Riley is racially ambiguous, which makes it a Democratic  name, particularly in the South, while Reilly tends to be more Republican.

Peterson is the 58th most common name, 84th among Democrats, but 41st among Republicans.  There are more Peterson's in Minnesota than any other state, which helps lead to 56% voter turnout.

[jimrtex]

The utility does not work for me, but I assume my surname "Dunn" is pretty heavily Dem, since I suspect a substantial percentage of Dunns are black, given that the name is most common in the South, and thus there were a lot of Dunn slave masters out there.

Not particularly.  It is 54% D, 46% R.

It is the 167th most common name, 152nd Republican, 187th Democratic.

The South is erratic.  70D-30R LA, 39D-61R SC, strongly R is AL and TN, weakly D in GA, weakly R in FL.

There is Democratic concentration in the Midwest, centered on Minnesota.   Utah is 79% R, perhaps some Mormon Dunn's.