[Forgiven_Sinner]

There's a couple countervailing demographic trends that hurt the Democrats:

1. America is aging. The older people get, the more conservative they get.
2. The people who are reproducing are conservative. Religious people have a higher birthrate that unreligious people.

So, the republicans have a coalition of the religious (and it can get larger as the conservative Jews and Catholics move from their traditional Democratic base), families, and elderly.

[irish_links]

"....There's a couple countervailing demographic trends that hurt the Democrats:

1. America is aging. The older people get, the more conservative they get.
2. The people who are reproducing are conservative. Religious people have a higher birthrate that unreligious people......"

That's about all we have to go on and I'm afraid it's not enough. People get more "conservative" as they older until they reach 65 and start depending on/benefiting from federal entitlement programs. Afterwards, their voting patterns tend to track back in a leftward direction.

Traditionalists may be making babies, but the impact is swamped by immigration. Two thirds of our current population growth comes from immigration and the progeny of first generation immigrants. Many of the immigrant groups are conservative culturally, but see the Dem party as their economic savior and political protector.

The deck is stacked and not for us.