That is the percentage of the TOTAL vote that was White, not the GOP share.
yep...and I did some research too ...
the most anyone got in recent years was in 72 and 84 with around 65% white vote going GOP
it has averaged 59% since 1968 going GOP when we win but we have won with as little as 54%
but this time we lost with 55% so this problem is two fold....yes, the white pool has shrunk but we also came out too light for McCain for obvious reasons
more whites are now liberal, there are less of us as a percentage due to uncontrolled immigration legal and illegal and the immigrants legal or not trend overwhelmingly liberal voters looking for government help and I think also instinctively vote anti-white since they are usually not
there is no conservative block in this nation outside white Christians of any consequence, not enough Viets or older Cubans to matter
history has shown we cannot make minorities into conservatives unless they want it..and so far they sure don’t want it and are in fact hostile to it
but we can put out a real conservative and hope to get white righties....many of whom stay home...to get out and vote
saying we can reach out and transform enough minorities to matter short of becoming Dems ourselves to appeal to their motivations is akin to producing hydrogen cars in a couple of years
ain’t gonna happen