I’ll bet those numbers for 2012 are far worse in 2018, too.
I really do know how we fix this. Trump was the answer, but now that the democrats control the House nothing much will get done between now and 2021, IF then.
Also, re: your chart. I love the fact that 70% of the non-citizen immigrants are democrat. I used to think, “Hey, at least they can’t vote!”
Now after the 2018 elections, how true is that???
I’m feeling beaten and depressed this morning. Just heard Young Kim’s victory was overturned by voting shenanigans of this type...
What a travesty!
Unless we reduce significantly the current cap of 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants annually and change the rules on birthright citizenship that confers citizenship on 300,000 anchor babies every year, it is over. The Dems will be the permanent majority party within a decade.
I can sympathize with many of the posts on this thread that are trying to come up with explanations as to why the electoral results are changing in favor of the Dems. I went thru a similar experience living in VA for 36 years and watching the state go from solid red to solid blue. Mass immigration changed the state coupled with domestic migration from the Northeast.
I was active in local VA politics being part of the county committee and attending VA state conventions. There was large scale denial of the impact of immigration. As the demography changed, outreach and better messaging were deemed the solutions. It was fruitless and futile. In many ways, one's politics are similar to one's religion. You usually inherit them from your parents and community. It takes generations to change. In the meantime, we get hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters coming into the country every year thru our immigration policies.
A number of years ago, I had a one-on-one briefing with Eric Cantor on the electoral impact of immigration. I asked him what the Dems would do if the immigrants were voting Rep instead of Dem. Would they allow them to come in under the current numbers? He laughed and said that they would never put up with it. I responded, "Why are the Republicans putting up with it?" No answer. The reality is that the corporate elites own both parties. They want an inexhaustible supply of cheap, exploitable labor. They could care less about the social costs and the damage to American workers.
Once again history is repeating itself. The U.S. has had this in the past - Houey P. Long in La., Boss Hog in N.Y. , there are many such examples in Boston and Chicago as well.
At some point people get fed up or not, usually it takes an event like the Great Depression or WWII to refocus peoples attitudes.
So, we will be facing the possible equivalent of the Great Depression once again.
The Fed is raising Interest rates AND removing QE money, thus the prerequisite for the next Stock market crash is baked in.
2019 will be a very interesting year both financially and therefore politically