The progressives are hyping the decline of the “White” population. They are claiming this will doom the Republican Party and that the 2010 elections were a fluke and last stand by “White” America. To begin with let me debunk a few myths. the majority of Hispanics in the US consider themselves White. for some strange reason, Progressives and some Conservatives don’t accept them as White. In fact, there has been a campaign in America to de-Europeanize Hispanics and make them some non European group. In places like California and New York, this campaign has worked. In places like Florida, New Mexico and Texas, it’s gone nowhere. Hispanics even those who are not White belong to the same Mediterranean culture as Italians and Greeks. Many Hispanics have also intermarried with the White American population (Mostly with Italians and Irish), hence their kids are thoroughly Americanize.
Asian Americans have integrated successfully into mainstream American society. Many have intermarried with White Americans and are indistinguishable from any other American. They tend to be very successful professional and business owners. Asians have been here form more than 150 and are a solid part of the American mosaic. The Progressives have created a false image of Hispanics and Asians as Non American or victims. Thus they are hoping that this image will cause resentment and thus hope it leads to these2 groups to feel isolated and turning to the Democrats as their only allies. WHat the Left doesn’t copunton is that attitudes change and teh fact that many Hispanic and Asians are Conservative, thus open to the GOP’s message.
Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That’s what some analysts of the 2010 Census results claim. Many go on, sometimes with relish, to say that this spells electoral doom for the Republican Party.
I think the picture is more complicated than that. And that the demise of the Republican Party is no more foreordained than it was a century ago when Italian, Jewish and Polish immigrants were pouring into the United States in proportions much greater than the Hispanic and Asian immigration of the past two decades.
The numbers do appear stark. The Census tells us that 16 percent of U.S. residents are Hispanic, up from 13 percent in 2000 and 9 percent in 1990, and that 5 percent are Asian, up from 4 percent in 2000. The percentage of blacks held steady at 13. Among children, the voters of tomorrow, those percentages are higher.
But it’s a mistake to see blacks, Hispanics and Asians as a single “people of color” voting bloc. The 2010 exit poll shows that the Republican percentages in the vote for the U.S. House were 60 percent among whites, 9 percent among blacks, 38 percent among Hispanics and 40 percent among Asians.
Simple arithmetic tells you that Hispanics and Asians vote more like whites than like blacks. The picture is similar in the 2008 exit poll.
Read the rest: GOP Shouldn’t Panic If Whites Become a Minority
SO let’s take the Progressives and their argument at face value. Demographics are changing, so what! Culture defines a people and not some one’s biological make up. The Left is obsessed with race, hence they have created 2 fictitious new races, Asians and Hispanics. This is quit laughable considering as I have stated earlier, Most Hispanics are Whiteand even if you include those that aren’t, the culture is a branch of the Southern European-Latin culture which Italians and Greeks also belong to. Asians are so diverse that to put Japanese and Chinese in thesame category. If naything, this shows the racist nature of Progressives.
Conservatives need to get their message out to these 2 growing blocks. One aspect is to view Hispanics and Asians not as big monolithic groups, but as individuals. Use Asian and Hispanic Conservatives as outreach to these communities, go before Spanish language media and make the Conservative case. Keep in mind that until Ronald Reagan, White Catholics were solidly Democrats, now they are mostly Republican or swing votes. To cripple the Democrats, Republicans just need to win 40-45% of the Hispanic vote. One Way to this is to concentrate efforts on Hispanics who are Middle Class, Professionals, Devout Catholics and business owners. If The GOp can lock up these groups of Hispanic voters, then they will do well.
The GOP needs to clarify their stance on illegal immigration. They need to emphasize, that illegals are the issue and not legal immigrants. To many Republicans fall into this culture war with Hispanics as some threat to America. What these fools don’t realize is that over 400 years, the ancestors of Hispanics along with their Italian cousins saved the West from Islam. So it’s much fear mongering over nothing. Asians are no threat and one just has to look at Hawaii as an example. It’s mostly Asian and Polynesian, yet it’s American as apple pie.
If the GOP plays it’s cards right, they will benefit from the growing Hispanic and Asian population in America. But we are talking about a Party that is cooperating with Obama’s illegal Libyan war, appeases Islam and lies to current constituents about their agenda. Before they outreach to other groups, the GOP needs to get its House in order. If the Republicans aren’t serving their current voters, how ill they appeal to new ones? That is another thread.
