Read this excerpt from "Empire State Building" by J. Patrick Lewis. I am an American boy, standing up to the world.

I sleep, the city sleeps. We dream

the riveter's dream, held island-fast.

I wake to taxi alarms.

I am a 102-stop elevator ride to heaven.

I am ten million bricks of unshakable faith.

I capture imagination at its peak.

Lewis's style is

the correct answer is "ethnic heritage".

a person's ethnicity can influence a lot the way he/she votes.

in the united states, for example, black people tend to vote democratic. it happens because the society builds a strong division among people, and equals tend to mingle and support equals. black people's votes in a whole will most certaintly lean towards a candidate or a party which supports the fight against racism.