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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
3. Demographics won't "do its thing" - at least, not for a long time.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 02:16 PM
Jun 2017

White voters have only gotten MORE Republican overall, and the Democratic triumphalism regarding the changing demographics hasn't helped in that respect.

And note that voters of color (as opposed to people of color in general - lots of people can't vote i.e immigrants, people with criminal records, people disenfranchised by Republican gerrymandering, along with lots of people who aren't registered or simply don't vote - all of these being disproportionately, but by no means exclusively of course, people of color) are heavily concentrated in urban areas (a fact that has made the Republican gerrymandering easier) and in reliably Democratic states (like my own state, for example).

White voters will continue to play a disproportionate role in elections in the short term and in the medium term, and they aren't getting less Republican as a whole - quite the opposite. And this is especially true outside of, again, places that are already heavily Democratic. You may not like this reality (I certainly don't) but unfortunately, it IS the reality.

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