One BIG PROBLEM for Democrats, as they just learned in Texas, along with other states: THERE ARE A LOT OF WHITE VOTERS. As long as the Dems were a viable alternative, that didn’t matter much, as most white votes canceled each other out.
Those days are OVER. Here in Texas, whites are now a BLOCK VOTE and they ain’t blocking for no Democrats. Instead, at least here in Texas, and maybe more states than the Dems wish, the HISPANICS vote is now the vote that nearly splits down the middle, with Hispanics going about 44% Republican in Texas and New Mexico. Whites are solid Republican, almost in as high of numbers are blacks keep voting Democrat. Even Jews are slowly creeping to the right.
Whites are now (finally) a lost cause for Democrats - I just wish it didn’t have to take them (i.e., us, in most cases) several decades to figure out just how bad the Dems are.
Note also that the article doesn’t bother telling people EXACTLY WHY whites are now voting as they are. All we hear about is the extremism of the Tea Party. But how about Gay Marriage, Gun Control, abuse of the legislative process, corruption by judges? At some point the media might get around to those factors...but I don’t really care if they do or don’t, all that matters is that the Dems, with Obama LEADING THE WAY, have created the largest voting block this country has ever seen, and it is on OUR SIDE!!
I think you’re exaggerating and overstating it when you say Hispanics are splitting almost down the middle in Texas and other states.
Yes, if the 44% exit poll figure for Abbott is correct, then that is a great showing for a Republican with Latinos. But it is not typical. Usually Republicans in Texas do good to get around 40%. That’s what Cruz claimed to have got in 2012, while Perry probably got a few points less than that last time. So usually the GOP is a long way from splitting the Hispanic vote, even in Texas.
I haven’t seen exit polls for New Mexico or Nevada, but even if Martinez and Sandoval did as good as Abbott with Hispanics, it would again be an exception to the norm in those states, and definitely not enough to proclaim a lasting shift.
The only state with a large Hispanic population where the GOP has won that demographic several times is Florida, and that is because Cubans are much more Republican (though less so than before) than other Latino groups.
Hispanics are still a a mostly democratic group, which is natural because they hold liberal views on most of the big issues. It is still in the GOP’s demographic best interest to greatly reduce legal immigration and oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.
Otherwise I largely agree. Whites are a block in Texas and many other southern states. If only the GOP could win over 70% of the white vote all over the south and Midwest like they do in Texas!
I’d add though that one reason whites are voting more as a block is because of our unwanted policy of unending mass immigration. If our elites are determined to makes whites another minority group, then one shouldn’t be surprised if whites start voting like one.