[neverdem]

I do think that Social Conservatism has a shrinking base among younger generations, and I don’t know how that is to be reversed.

Young people have been becoming more prolife, and non whites are more prolife than whites.

In U.S., Nonreligious, Postgrads Are Highly "Pro-Choice"

More than 7-in-10 black Americans (71%) and Hispanic Americans (77%) say that the term “pro-life” describes them somewhat or very well. At the same time, three-quarters (75%) of black Americans and 72% of Hispanic Americans report that “pro-choice” describes them somewhat or very well.

"Pro-Choice" Americans at Record-Low 41% - Americans now tilt "pro-life" by nine-point margin, 50% to 41%

Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT - Inaugural Gallup findings based on more than 120,000 interviews LGBT is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

But Gallup can be tricky with polls like this.

U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian - Those with lower incomes, the less educated, women, and young people give the highest estimates

The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim

If you check any link, check the last one.

[zeestephen]

neverdem,

Although I am not a Social Conservative or a religious person, I have never advocated that we throw Social Conservatives out of the GOP.

In fact, I have voted with the Social Conservatives for more than 40 years.

If we take the absolutely central religious foundation out of the Republican Party, then there is no rationale to even have a Republican Party.

We would simply become third party “conservative” Libertarians, or some other politically useless hybrid.

Politically, I am completely comfortable with the Social Conservatives, and I will never reject them.

But my point about Hispanic voters is completely valid...

No matter how much they “claim” to be Conservatives, they do not vote that way, they have never voted that way, and there is no reason to believe they will EVER vote that way.