Watching the dems and their refusal to even politely applaud for anything related to the WOT was profoundly disturbing to me. And their undignified cheering at blocking SS reform was disgusting.
It seems half our elected Representatives have a death wish for the country. All they care about is winning. It made me wonder if the minority in the House has behaved this way before.
I am not an historian but to my recollection politics took a turn for the worse in the 1964 election when LBJ did the daisy and a-bomb commercial to defeat Goldwater. Bill Moyers was a big part of that.
Since, they have been heavy into the politics of personal destruction. They impeached Nixon, after having stolen the 1960 election from him, they denigrated Ford as a clumsy goof (Of course he was very cooperative in the effort.), they attacked Reagan as an old, senile, second rate B movie actor, they accused Bush I of piloting a U-2 to Paris to cut a deal with Iran to elect Reagan, and on and on until the present.
You asked about minorities and I am talking about Democrats. Why? They have been the way the are for quite awhile but they have only recently become the minority. That means the answer to your question is NO.
I am so completely disgusted by those people I can't express in words... It's like watching a pendulum and praying it doesn't stop in the wrong spot.