Population shift likely to boost GOP

The Washington Times ^ | January 8, 2007 | Donald Lambro

[Clintonfatigued]

Ongoing population shifts from the North to the Sun Belt states will benefit Republicans more than Democrats in future House races and could enlarge the Republican Party's electoral count in presidential elections, political analysts say. Analysts say Democrats have offset the Republicans' Sun Belt advantage with gains in the Northeast and parts of the South and Southwest, but that the size of the migration by the end of this decade likely will give the edge to Republicans. "I think on balance the Republicans will benefit from the larger number of seats in the Sun Belt region. They won't get 100 percent of it, but more than the Democrats do," said Merle Black, a longtime analyst of Southern politics at Emory University in Georgia.

[Wallace T.]

One step Republican legislatures fear to take is the use of the power of the purse strings to curb the Marxist and liberal domination of state-run universities. The last time anything of this order was done was in the 1950s, and the liberals screamed about repression and McCarthyism, and generally the legislatures backed down. In Texas, for example, both houses of the Legislature and the governor's office are held by the GOP, yet the University of Texas system is notoriously liberal, and has been so for decades. Similarly, not since the Reagan Administration have Republican lawmakers seriously attempted to cut off Federal funding for leftist dominated groups like the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS. OTOH, the liberals when in power do not hesitate to attack institutions where conservatives dominate, for example, in the feminizing and homosexualizing of the military and the use of the IRS to harass conservative organizations.

Conservatives must storm or topple the ivory tower of the liberal educational and cultural elite. Without that, any victory on issues like firearms ownership, Supreme Court justices, etc., is only temporary. You can win a lot of battles yet still lose the war, as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee would have attested.

[BlackElk]

Make that "some conservatives."

[snarkytart]

Good news ping!

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THANKS I NEEDED SOME GOOD NEWS!

[BlackElk]

That opponents of the Latin American immigration are verrrrrry loud does not make them either wise or a majority. Politicos in both parties favor the immigration in reasonable numbers.

Some conservatives got all lathered up over immigration and vowed to stay home on election day. Many of them did so and we now have a Demonratic Congress in both houses. I am going out on a limb here and predicting that the Demonratic Congress is not going to close the border much less find the "illegals" already here and deport them. Instead the Congress will vote a comprehensive solution, including what will be called "amnesty." Many Hispanics will be unnecessarily voting Demonrat because they are being convinced that the Demonrats are "their friends" (the old 40 acres and a mule thing) and Republicans (think Tancredo) their enemies.

One thing is for sure. History will not teach that border resistance was smart or effective politics.

[arthurus]

The public schools are hopeless and cannot be reclaimed nor can the universities because professors feel no connection with the market, with getting and spending; they know nothing of how wealth arises, even most of the Econ profs. Professors tend to believe that they are poorly rewarded for their innate value, not paid for the market value of their production.They are always resentful that corporate CEOs make more money when they are not as "valuable" as Human Beings. The tendency to greater and greater Federal and state funding destroys any local input even when the Conservatives get control of the legislatures and the executives because they still have no control of the permanent government, the bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is frozen in its orientation by Civil Service. Look at how much control of our foreign policy actually resides in the leftist permanent State Department. Reagan understood the problem and simply sidelined the CIA and put in his own intelligence crew. Bush put Rice in State and she was almost immediately captured by the Establishment there and started sounding different. That is when she jumped on board the Peace Process and the Road Map.

Anyone who sends his children to public schools is prima facie guilty of child abuse.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

This should truly be the number one issue in U.S. politics right now!

[BlackElk]

In 2004, Dubya got 45% of the Hispanic vote which almost certainly means a majority of the Mexican vote since Puerto Ricans are so heavily Demonrat. In 2006, after 2 full years of embarassingly counterproductive Tancredoist loudmouths in Congress on the GOP side of the aisle, the GOP Congresscritters got 31% of the Hispanic vote. Nice work. And you want this suicide to continue????? Maybe you can induce the Hispanics to be as Demonrat as the blacks in spite of the general social conservatism of the Mexicans. Be sure to insult them every chance you get and you will continue to have Demonrat Congresses AND Her Satanic Majesty, Mrs. Arkansas Antichrist herself in the White House. Won't Tancredo be proud!!!!

[Sir Gawain]

I'd prefer to win on ideas, but I'll take a victory where I can get it.

Many freepers prefer victory over ideas.

[SunkenCiv]

GOP Plants Flag on New Voting Frontier
LA Times | Mon Nov 22 2004, 7:55 AM ET
Ronald Brownstein and Richard Rainey,
with contributions by Kathleen Hennessey
Posted on 11/23/2004 11:52:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1286918/posts

The Republican Party's Diminishing Strength in New York
Gotham Gazette (dot com) | June 7, 2004 | Gerald Benjamin
Posted on 09/09/2004 11:19:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211174/posts

The Winds of Political Change… And Why You Almost Never Feel Them Coming
American Heritage | February/March 2005 | Kevin Baker
Posted on 03/07/2005 12:52:13 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1357510/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Politicalmom]

Georgia's doing fine. More conservative now than when I moved here (from CA) five years ago.

And we're chasing the illegals out, as well.

[Berosus]

Tell me about it. Until recently I lived in Seminole County, FL, where Democrats are already a third party. There a typical local election pits a Republican vs. an independent, or a Republican vs. a Libertarian. Now I'm in Lexington, KY, which is apparently a more liberal community, judging by how many folks expect the government to look after them. They didn't even have a Republican candidate running in last year's congressional election! No doubt it's the influence of the University of Kentucky, which owns a big chunk of the city. I hope the demographics also work the other way, so I can bring my "redder" state values to a state that's supposed to be "red" already.

[Berosus]

This isn't really news. People moving from the "Rust Belt" to the "Sun Belt" have been a factor influencing elections for at least a generation. That's why it's critical for a presidential candidate to win in the South these days. By contrast, in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Democrats could count on having the South almost every time, unless they nominated a Catholic (e.g. Alfred E. Smith in 1928), while Republicans concentrated their efforts in the North and West, because those areas by themselves had enough votes for them to win.

Myself, I find fertility a more encouraging trend. Conservatives are having more children, while Liberals are aborting, sterilizing and sodomizing themselves out of existence. Read what I wrote about it here last fall:

The Liberal Birth Dearth

[Jim Noble]

I'm a true believer in the basic concept behind the Constitution, which is that the People can rule themselves through representative elections and that their collective choices will, most of the time, reflect their will.

The idea that people will vote Republican based on geography, religion, or their parents is the antithesis of this American civic religion.

The Republicans rose to power based on limited government and fiscal responsibility. They have convincingly disavowed both of these pillars of their majority, and their majority is gone.

Currently unaffililated voters are up for grabs. What will the GOP do to win them? Move up Daylight Saving Time? Build bridges to nowhere? Put JAG officers in charge of warfighters?

Who knows?

[FreedomPoster]

Boy, you're just a message of hope and light on a rainy Saturday morning. Ouch.

Not shooting the messenger, just mildly depressed at the message.

[arthurus]

How about that much faster and larger population shift that is occurring from South to North across the Texas border?

[Clintonfatigued]

One hopes that they learn from their mistakes. Whether they will remains to be seen. There are some hopeful signs, but not enough of them.