Michael Barone points out something:
If you keep telling “whites” (a category not considered useful when I started analyzing election data, since almost all voters were “white” then) or white Christians that they are headed to minority status, they are going to start voting like members of a self-conscious minority group. Arguably they already have.
If that’s a change from the past, it would certainly explain why this election cycle has seemed so puzzling to me.
That exactly what we’re seeing. The diversity hacks are finally seeing the rocs come home to roost.
In the past the GOP has been led by elite multinationalists who loved profitting from outsourcing the jobs of working class whites and cheap labor immigration.
Voting for them was self-destructive.
This is not a change from the past. It is more open, but it is not any different than elections since 1972.
Steve
The sheer fact that juxtaposing societal “colors” is becoming a prime topic for discussion in the current election cycle only seems indicative of how far we have back-slid in our goals to become a colorblind society. Now we have “Black Lives Matter” being raised to an unreal relevance by dem politicians, as people are being beaten up for even uttering phrases saying that “all” lives matter.
Even more indicative is that a colorblind society no longer appears to be an objective.
Dave, …sad but true.