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In reply to the discussion: FACT: GOP voters are overwhelmingly older, whiter, and maler [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)54. Take it one more step
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
For example - black Americans came in around 13% of the total population - yet per your link - Only 5% identify as Republican. What do we do with that?
Next - what about the non white Hispanics in your link?
Fact - Democratic Party has a big tent - Republicans don't.
Quite simply they attract selfish, angry, old white men. Angry because they never got a pony that they were told was theirs for the taking. All the cards were supposed to be stacked in their favor and the "others" took it from them. They believe they are just like the Koch brothers. They are peope of the lie.
Time is on our side as are the coming demographic shifts - the only thing the Republican Party has to offer today is Religion, Guns, and "safe harbor" for the affluent.
How can I make sure other affluent minorities don't get sucked into their abusement park?
Eta - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/13/changing-racial-makeup-_n_5142462.html
2042 is coming. I will be 69 then. The America I was born to will no longer exist.
For example - black Americans came in around 13% of the total population - yet per your link - Only 5% identify as Republican. What do we do with that?
Next - what about the non white Hispanics in your link?
Fact - Democratic Party has a big tent - Republicans don't.
Quite simply they attract selfish, angry, old white men. Angry because they never got a pony that they were told was theirs for the taking. All the cards were supposed to be stacked in their favor and the "others" took it from them. They believe they are just like the Koch brothers. They are peope of the lie.
Time is on our side as are the coming demographic shifts - the only thing the Republican Party has to offer today is Religion, Guns, and "safe harbor" for the affluent.
How can I make sure other affluent minorities don't get sucked into their abusement park?
Eta - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/13/changing-racial-makeup-_n_5142462.html
2042 is coming. I will be 69 then. The America I was born to will no longer exist.
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I dont understand why any older, white DU members would be bothered by that at all
randys1
Jul 2014
#3
Of course not, at the same time stating the obvious about who the rightwing is may not be
randys1
Jul 2014
#17
It is a problem because that dead horse is constantly being beaten around here
Art_from_Ark
Jul 2014
#38
I think these folks are absolutely paranoid about broad brushing. Probably because it's something
Number23
Jul 2014
#35
And apple pie is better with ice cream, but it has nothing to do with what the OP said
randys1
Jul 2014
#8
Which idiot righty said he was afraid that people vote who dont know how serious
randys1
Jul 2014
#32
I contributed to that thread. As a human being, as a woman, as a liberal, I have tried...
Hekate
Jul 2014
#44
What I notice, both in the GOP and in it's omission here, is how Heterosexual the Republican voters
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#41
I'm older, white, and male..I was the liberal from the 60s who would put you to shame..
Sancho
Jul 2014
#43
Okay. Here's another FACT: White people make up a majority of the Democratic base.
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2014
#50