According to wikipedia.com 71.2% of CT’s population is non-hispanic white——that IS lily white compared to my state and more non-hispanic white than the national average.
For the most part, if you live outside of Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport Connecticut feels very white. The problem is, as with most of New England, too many of those white people are self-destructively leftist or unionized. Enough to predictably deliver the state by a wide margin to any Democrat who runs for any office. I recall Romney inching within single digits of the Marxist during polls close to November 6. In the end is was pie in the sky: the Marxist won CT by around 15 points! I’ve concluded based on this outcome that, like MA and NY, CT will never again help deliver a GOP presidential candidate.
North Carolina, with its huge population of descendants from slaves is 72 percent white, according to a 2011 estimate by U.S. Census. So, Connecticut, which was probably 95 percent white 50 years ago has turned blacker and browner than North Carolina. Curious.
In fact, North Carolina has been turning whiter due to immigration from the north (including Connecticut) and higher white birth rates. It has also been trending less conservative from an influx of Hispanics, still relatively small and northern liberals. But recently the GOP seems to have mastered the formula for political success and made huge gains in Congress this year and won the governorship. Both houses of the state legislature are GOP.