Bob, I'm afraid you're misinformed here, and are repeating the RINO talking points that have been so divisive since Prop #187 passed by 2 to 1 in CA, across all racial demographics, except Hispanic, where just under 50% voted yes.
In the last weeks of the #187 campaign in '94, Latinos were leaning about 55% to 45% in favor... what happened? Our friends Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett came out against us, and became accomplices to the Leftist, L.A. Times driven smear campaign. That and only that kept a majority of Latinos from voting for #187, and even then it was close.
Since then, the Democrats have built on this myth, and with the aid of voter fraud and RINO cowardice, put together a string of victories in statewide elections (although referendums against racial quotas and bilingual education still won handily).
It's high time Republicans stopped believing the lie.
A strong stand against illegal immigration is a natural GOP strength, and if handled correctly, could break the Dem stranglehold on the black vote. Illegals are a plague in black underclass communities, and blacks know it... But Republicans have failed to make the easy case that blacks themselves have been betrayed by Democrat perfidy and vote fraud.
And is it not obvious how divisive soft-on-illegal policies are to our party? Look at this forum in the past few weeks. Resistance to Surrender on illegals has hardened, with fair warning.
Surrender would be disastrous for our country, and the GOP.
