GOP problem: 'Their voters are white, aging and dying off'
Samantha
2012/07/12 00:38:55
When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners in Washington on Wednesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.
"The Republicans' problem is their voters are white, aging and dying off," said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, who studies minority political engagement.
"There will come a time when they suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes."
Over the next several generations, the wave of minority voters -- who, according to U.S. Census figures released this week, now represent more than half of the nation's population born in the past year -- will become more of a power base in places like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. That hold will extend across the Southwest all the way to California, experts say.
"The Republicans' problem is their voters are white, aging and dying off," said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, who studies minority political engagement.
"There will come a time when they suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes."
Over the next several generations, the wave of minority voters -- who, according to U.S. Census figures released this week, now represent more than half of the nation's population born in the past year -- will become more of a power base in places like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. That hold will extend across the Southwest all the way to California, experts say.
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- rustyshackelford 2012/07/12 04:45:16
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Wow, rusty, your posts are getting more and more meaningless.reply - rustysh... Samantha 2012/07/13 06:11:49
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I posted a fact about the changing culture of this country. Conservatives reject facts, science and reason.reply
- VoteOut 2012/07/12 01:19:42Well then minorities will no longer be minorities so will they then persecute the new minorities as you choose to doreply
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I don't persecute minorities.reply
- VoteOut Samantha 2012/07/12 01:46:22 (edited)You seem to prefer democracy (mob rule) over a republic that it ok for 51 percent of the population to dictate over the other 49. Kind of racist discriminating "white" being differnt then others. italians, irish, germans jewish etc is that what you mean by white people?reply
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Oh please, the article is about the changing demographics of the United States.reply
- MidnightCowboy 2012/07/12 00:48:07The Party of Angry Old White Men is going the way of the Betamax.
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They have to attract new voters but to do so they have to change their policies and attitudes. I think Democrats have done a good job of reaching out to minority voters and young voters.reply
