One Graph That Shows Which Party Really Looks Like America

Front Page Magazine ^ | November 13, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“Why is the Republican Party so white?” is the great whine issuing forth from the fat mouths of a thousand media outlets.

The Republican Party needs to be a party that “looks more like America” is the big lie of the left. So let’s take a look at the racial composition of Americans and the percent of the racial vote that Democrats and Republicans received to see which party really looks more like America.

There’s America in gray. And the Republican Party in red right next to it. And there’s the Democratic Party off to the side looking nothing like America.

In all cases, the Republican vote is closer to the demographics of America than the Democratic vote.

The racial composition of America is 63 percent white. Romney received 59 percent of the white vote with 39 percent left over for Obama.

While the 223.6 million white Americans, who look like America and whom America looks like, were not fully represented by either party; they were most represented by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party really needs to work on its share of the white vote because the Democratic Party no longer looks like America.

White Americans are the majority in 49 of the 50 state and also continue to act as a swing vote, determining presidential elections by shifting one way or another, in contrast to other some racial groups who narrow-mindedly vote as a bloc.

The Republican share of the vote shows inclusiveness picking up the votes of two out of three minority groups at a greater percentage than their representation in the population.

The racial composition of America is 16 percent Hispanic. The Republican Party exceeded the Hispanic share of the population in its representation by picking up 27 percent of the Hispanic vote. The Democrats got 71 percent of their vote, which is impressive, but another reminder that the Democratic Party does not look like America.

Asians make up 5 percent of America. Republicans picked up 26 percent of their vote. Democrats picked up 73 percent of the Asian vote. Again the Republicans picked up a larger share of the Asian vote than the representation of Asians in the population.

Blacks make up 13 percent of the population. Republicans picked up 6 percent of the Black vote. Only among Blacks did Romney pick up a lower share of the vote than their proportion in the American population. And if Romney had not been running against a black candidate, he would have probably matched Bush’s 11 percent of the black vote, which is fairly comparable to the black racial demographics of America.

The Republican share of the vote from 2012 is closest to the demographic picture of America. Two out of three minority groups are overrepresented. And only black people are underrepresented for reasons that have to do with racial pride, not a lack of Republican inclusiveness.

The Republican Party looks like America. The Democratic Party does not. And it is the Democratic Party that needs to work harder to be more representative of America.

[9YearLurker]

Politically, they vote as a block, which helps as well—they were more than a quarter of Obama’s support.

[SaraJohnson]

Some Americans have worked long and hard against the impulses and structures of racism. Demonrats are trying to bring back a power of racism - minorities against whites.

But a lot of minorities don’t like racism, either. They have an independent brain and see the Left’s racial manipulation for the power of hate and poverty.

Repugs. flourished when they addressed people beyond race within AMERICAN middle class ideals of freedom and justice and denounced liberalism’s smallness and darkness - sin, death, envy and racism.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Those graphs are incredibly deceiving—offering % of population and % of the vote received by each party on the same line, as if the numbers were representing the same thing.

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I agree. This is mostly statistical junk.

[RipSawyer]

“Point being, don’t believe the straight-line extrapolations of ‘white decline’.”
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I have noticed that the rule with the left seems to be that anyone who claims to be black or hispanic automatically qualifies as such while to be white one must be one hundred percent pure caucasian and cannot have brown eyes or the slightest hint of melanin. Years ago I was working on a piece of equipment at a plant and the room was filled with black guys who were gloating over the dominance of the boxing game enjoyed by black heavyweights. One of them asked me to name the last white heavyweight champion. I responded that to the best of my memory it was Ingemar Johannson. They didn’t want to count him because nobody remembered him or he hadn’t been champion long enough or something. I said how about Rocky Marciano, he retired undefeated and he beat the great Joe Louis. They then responded that Marciano was “not white, he was Italian”.

[mkboyce]

Which brings up the point of what is “white” vs. what is genetically “Caucasian”.

To many, white is the British Isles, Scandinavia, Germanics, Slavics and French.

While technically the Caucasian world includes the rest of Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East, nearly all of the western Asian steppes on down to much of the Indian sub-Continent, the latter three groups tend to qualify for affirmative action benefits along with so-called Hispanics, even if they look like Cameron Diaz.

As for boxing, last I checked the two best heavyweights in the world are the Brothers Klitchko from Ukraine. ;)

[BunnySlippers]

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