Poetic Justice
Crank up them quantum computers, atomic clocks and Mars space stations,
We’re teetering on the edge of a technological revelation.
We sent it from here and we know where it went,
Even though we only received ninety percent,
But we’ve undoubtably achieved the teleportation of quantum information!
So, WTF? Miami-Dade County, at the tippy end of Florida, has been more than 50% minority (Hispanic, black) for four years. I know, because I, as a white Anglo male, have been in the minority that long, and I’ve gotten used to it. My only explanation for this map is that, as usual, assumptions were made without putting feet on the ground here in South Florida.
I know I’m being politically correct here but…Don’t you think that generalizing people of color as being against the GOP is a little presumptuous? I might not know every person of color in the U.S but..I have to say the few I have met are Republican, small business owners and are socially conservative.
Aside this chart is just a projection, not a fact. For all we know; when the time comes, these people could very well be right wing in the end.
I think you’re jumping the shark here, Jon…
Tony, I haven’t jumped the shark, not on this issue, at least — the Republican Party has.
Since 1968, the Republican Party has deployed its “Southern strategy,” using racism to rile its bigoted base into voting for the GOP. The record shows that this strategy has worked very well for them. It started with Nixon, of course. But Reagan did it, too — he opened his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were killed in 1964.
Just last week, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich of Georgia used race baiting in a speech to his home state Republican convention, referring to Pres. Obama as a “food stamp president” (because more people are on food stamps now than ever, which, in reality, is a result of the Bush recession and not, as Gingrich insinuated, because the president wants people to be on food stamps) and claiming Obama is turning the country into Detroit, which is predominantly black.
The demographics of the Republican Party, meanwhile, are becoming increasingly old, white and rural. They are literally dying off.
This problem is particularly acute here in California, where the percentage of GOP voter registration is at a historic 156-year low. The California GOP brought this crisis upon themselves when Latinos here felt the party was attacking them on the issue of immigration the 1994 governor’s race. Californians with Mexican heritage have not forgotten or forgiven the GOP, and are not likely to.
If you look at the map, it’s clear that what has happened to Republicans in California could happen next in Texas, of all places.
The point is, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself with this strategy of castigating people of color, especially considering the changes that are a-coming.