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Fallout From the GOP's Lack of Diversity
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ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)And given the choice between a Democrat who acts like a Republican, and the real thing, voters will take the real thing every freaking time.
The Democratic party powers suffer from Stockholm syndrome when it comes to the GOP.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... year elections
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I guess we don't hate enough.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...when it comes to GOP fiscal and energy policy.
Not so much on the hate side of things...
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)groundloop
(11,513 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Since they have pretty much rigged voting and after years of FuksNews, Hate Radio and Pulpit Screamers doing their job of stirring up HATE, they don't even need to hide their Racism and Bigotry.
Gothmog
(144,890 posts)StanP50
(12 posts)I am a white people...and I am not a republican...and I am grateful for that fact everyday of my life.
calimary
(81,085 posts)Glad you're here! I'm a white people too. I can't imagine myself EVER voting republi-CON. I just can't. It's just not in me. I can't possibly espouse what they do. They're against everything I'm for, and for everything I'm against. As I age, I find myself leaning farther and farther to the left. But then again, I started out that way.
Gothmog
(144,890 posts)The GOP depends on the white vote and the Democrats are the party of diversity
robbob
(3,522 posts)Maybe there are many people from other minorities who vote republican but are simply too ashamed to admit it. I know I would be...
whathehell
(29,026 posts)pauldp
(1,890 posts)Grand Old White Party
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Geriatric Odious Whining Population
niyad
(113,030 posts)samsingh
(17,590 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)If the GOP wasn't able to marginalize the voting power of non-whites through gerrymandering and other suppression efforts they'd be screwed. That should be the #1 focus of the Democratic Party going forward strategically, reversing the damage the GOP has done to our democratic process. Seems like lots of other things would fall into place then.
calimary
(81,085 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)too many for their party!
Kablooie
(18,605 posts)totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)tclambert
(11,084 posts)And some more of those white people work for a living. You know, they live paycheck to paycheck, not off dividends from their daddy's corporation. Why do any of THOSE people choose to side with the party that hates them?
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)It would be interesting to see that number.
totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)It's depressing the percentage is that high.
calimary
(81,085 posts)then YOU TOO will be rich someday.
The only problem with that in the real world is - it simply doesn't work that way. You keep on voting CON and you're apt only to get poorer and more backwards and more stupid, too.
But people sure can be snookered. You keep saying God Jesus and America and those words seem to have an anesthetizing effect on the brain. It all seems to turn the unsuspecting and naive into pod people.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)and team GOP is the only thing that will save them from slouching towards sodom and gomorrah!
MADem
(135,425 posts)I am shocked, I tell you...shocked... that there's five percent of their number that is non-caucasian! Are there that many jokesters in the mix, I wonder? From the "Yeah, I'm a registered Republican ... hahahaha!!!!! I love the look on the poll worker's face on election day! Bwahahaha!" school of humor? Or are they "primary spoilers" from the "Let me vote for the craziest one on the primary ballot" cadre?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)a profoundly racist society. It is too bad the GOP is doing everything it can, policy-wise, to keep it that way, and even worse that they are STILL winning elections.
Cha
(296,780 posts)the Minority Voters.
Mahalo EarlG
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)You're killing me.
The "gopeeparty."
That is killer.
You are one funny woman, Cha.
What a great sense of humor you have!
Cha
(296,780 posts)Mahalo Major!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)That's how all of the results for all of the elections turn out concerning diversity for the members of the GOP party.
They continue to get whiter, and whiter, and whiter.
68-year trends don't lie.
Evidently, Strom Thurmond struck a chord with those people.
Take a bow, Strom.
No, wait . . . he is? . . . I forgot.
Cha
(296,780 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I think they are going to lose this country for a LONG, LONG TIME
NickB79
(19,224 posts)As the old, white population that is their base dies off.
Of course, if they manage to get their way in the short term and destroy this country before that collapse comes about, we're all fucked.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)After reading this I had to ask myself if there are any parallels between demographics of who votes Republican and who voted for the Nazis. I immediately ran across this link and although hard to understand in places I found it fascinating overall. Rural German farmers were for the Nazis while the unemployed in the cities were against them, Protestants generally were for the Nazis too while Catholics were against them. The entire article is recommendable, here are a few snippets:
from: http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar6_Geary.htm
"This story of electoral success certainly forms the background to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933. However, even at the peak of the NSDAP's popularity before this moment, almost 63 per cent of the German electorate did not vote for the Nazis. What is more, in November 1932, the Nazi Party actually lost 2 million votes. This means that Hitler was not directly voted in to power; for in the Weimar system of absolute proportional representation, 37 per cent of the vote in July 1932 gave the Nazis nothing like a majority in the Reichstag."
"It has often been assumed that the rise of Nazism was inextricably intertwined with unemployment. As unemployment rose dramatically after 1928, peaked in the spring of 1932 and then declined, so did the National Socialist vote. However, Nazi party members were usually in employment; and unemployment was concentrated in those places where the Nazi vote was relatively low, such as Germany's large cities. There was a negative correlation between unemployment and NSDAP electoral support, for example in the towns of Bochum and Herne (another mining centre), and the Nazis polled worst in the pit colonies with very high levels of unemployment, where the Communists benefited from the votes of the jobless. Only 13 per cent of the unemployed supported the NSDAP, and those without jobs were over twice as likely to support the KPD."
"Until 1930 women remained unlikely to vote for the Nazi Party. Moreover, in the presidential election of 1932 a clear majority of women preferred Hindenburg to Hitler. However, the early 1930s did see a narrowing of the gap between male and female voting patterns, especially in Protestant areas. Indeed, in some of these by July 1932 the NSDAP was winning a higher percentage of the female to male vote. In that month some 6.5 million women voted Nazi, many of them probably with few or no previous political ties. Where they came from the working class, they were likely to be non-unionised textile operatives or domestic workers."
(the summary)
"The Nazi Party was therefore without doubt a Volkspartei: recruiting its members and its voters across a broad range of social groups, from both sexes and from the older as well as the younger generation. However, this support was never able to deliver enough votes for a parliamentary majority, nor was it distributed randomly across German society. Being a Catholic, unemployed or living in a large town significantly reduced the likelihood of voters to opt for Hitler, as did the existence of strong ideological and political traditions. Conversely, being a Protestant in rural Germany greatly increased such a propensity, as did the absence of strong loyalties. The structure of Nazi support therefore requires that explanations of the rise of Hitler are not simply reduced to the experiences and sentiments common to all Germans, but must take into account both the timing of Nazi success and the specific grievances of those who did choose the NSDAP to speak for them."
captainarizona
(363 posts)Every month 100,000 minority kids turn 18(voting age) and 20,000 conservatives die of old age or other reasons. The chamber of commerce is scared to death of this. The tea baggers tell corporate republicans "we don't care! You are going down on the titanic with us or we will primary you out!" They are even going after john mccain to primary him out for not being a true conservative! 5,000,000 more minority kids will be available to be registered for the 2016 election and a 1,000,000 republican voter will of passed on and can't vote even if they live in chicago!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The stats cited are comparing the GOP primary voters (a minority in both parties, most folks don't bother to vote until the general election, if at all) with the voting-age population of the US some one hundred years ago. The latter number includes a lot of people who, as I said, don't often bother to vote unless extremely motivated.
That said, it is a good illustration of why the GOP nominee is not going to be reflective of the general electorate, unless the individual can make that whole right-turn, left-turn thing.