Posted on 06/14/2010 7:45:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
New Census data shows the continued trend that the United States is becoming a nation increasingly less white.
According to this latest report, 48.6% of children born in the U.S. between July 2008 and July 2009 were “non-white minorities.” That’s up two percentage points from two years earlier, and soon the figure will cross the 50% mark.
The largest growth demographic is Hispanics, who accounted for almost 55% of our population growth. And, most of this growth – two thirds – came from births, not from immigration.
Aside from the knowledge that the country is becoming more colorful, an obvious thing we’ve got to be thinking about is what this means politically. Given that Democrats have been getting the majority of Hispanic and black votes – the two largest minorities – the straightforward conclusion appears to be that demographic trends favor the Democrat Party.
In the 2008 elections, white voters, for the first time ever, accounted for less than 75% of the total vote. It’s been noted that if each ethnic group voted as it did in 2008, but made of up the same percentage of the electorate as it did 20 years ago, John McCain would be our president today.
Clearly, demographic realities present real challenges to the Republican Party and the values that it is supposed to be championing – limited government and free markets.
Most recent polling from Gallup shows Hispanics generically favoring Democrats over Republicans by 2 to 1.
Republicans have got to make headway with this population.
We need them for building the political consensus to make the critical changes to fix our country - cutting the massive growth in government that Democrats have put in motion, cutting spending to eliminate trillion dollar deficits, reducing our now massive $13 trillion dollar debt, and to come up with creative solutions to the $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities we’re now looking at in our major entitlement programs – Social Security and Medicare. And, of course, holding the line on taxes.
Otherwise stated, if Republicans cannot start pulling in a bigger chunk of this Hispanic vote, it will be tough to be optimistic that we’ll be able to reverse the direction that Democrats have initiated – transformation of our country into a European style social welfare state.
Can Republicans reverse this political trend?
I say yes. The reason is that it is in the interests of our Hispanic citizens to support what Republicans are trying to do.
We’ve got in front of us right now two contrasting snapshots of what America’s future could look like. These two snapshots happen to be our two states with the nation’s largest Hispanic populations. California and Texas.
California today is America’s Greece. Over-governed, over-taxed, over-regulated, over-unionized, with excessive spending and impossible entitlements commitments. If you want to know the path that our federal government is now on, just look at California.
In a recent survey by Chief Executive magazine, CEOs rated California as the worst state in the country for doing business. It is the only state they awarded a grade of “F” in the category of “Taxation and Regulation.”
Over the last year and half, California lost over a million jobs and its overall level of employment is down where it was ten years ago. Its unemployment rate is several points above the national average.
Texas, on the other hand, was rated number one by CEOs. A low tax, low regulation, right-to-work state, unemployment in Texas is several points below the national average. And Texas has had net positive job creation through the recent recession.
Hispanics who think California is model for America’s future can keep voting for Democrats. But my guess is most will prefer the Texas model.
If Republicans make this choice clear to these folks, political change has got to happen.
If Hispanice want hight taxes and welfare then no, we cannot win their vote. This country will go down in flames.
If the “Hispanic” vote wants amnesty (and continued easy entry) for illegal aliens and racial spoils, then is it important to win the Hispanic vote?
Or is it more important to elect Republicans than it is to say with principles?
Stop killing our babies and we will not have to worry about it, or about having to hire foreign nationals to work in this country.
Si’.....Si’
“Can Republicans reverse this political trend?”
No. Because Democrats will drive in the racial wedge, and convince the hispanics that they need “their own power”, and that the democrats offer them that ability.
Reoublicans won’t appeal to that lowest common denominator (and after decades of propaganda, they only believe it coming from democrats anyway), because we believe in the MLK racial attitude. Color of character.
But there’s not much character out there, and a whole lot of skin.
..the ones that are legal..????..is this a trick question?
How about simply just winning the "American" vote?
These articles are condescending and lack any vestige of rational thought based on what conservatism stands for.
GW promised hispanics a "new America" where "spanish could on heard every corner" and he STILL only got about 50% of the vaunted hispanic vote. It's time for the GOP to stop thinking they can pander their way into leadership and simply find a way to lead.
/rant
“Can Republicans Win the Hispanic Vote?”
Not w/o backing amnesty and losing me and millions like me.
if the parents are illegal then the kids are illegal..send them to their homeland
Refresh my memory... a Hispanic is a person born in a place that was originally colonized by Spain? Like Florida, New Mexico, California? Why do we need this category of “victims” again?
Hispaniola is having an election?
NO!! Hispanics are on the Democrat PLANTATION and they don’t want to be successful in life...they seem to just want to live off the g-teat......most ILLEGALLY!!
Neither do muslims...
There is no one, single “Hispanic Vote”. Folks from Latin America and people with a Latin American heritage are pretty diverse and not a monolithic bloc of votes.
On the face of it, it appears dems are headed to a permanent majority. If so, America is doomed. There is however, another possibility, a three-party system. For eons, we’ve had a dem/repub two-party system, but we could see a three-way split along economic and racial/ethnic lines. Unfortunately, our lower social and economic classes are becoming too powerful in steering the goodship America. If something doesn’t change, they will take control of the helm.
I’m more concerned with someone’s contribution than their race/ethnicity. It is incedental that our lower socio-economic classes are heavily minority. I really don’t want people steering the ship that hadn’t paid their fare.
Si, by pushing amnesty and making Puerto Rico a state, they can get the votes and continue to push us to being a Third World country, where both parties compete to buy votes.
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