It's called "immigration-based
identity politics" and it's merely a matter of scale:
Drop into a political gathering almost anywhere in America, and you can
usually name the party just by looking: Democrats increasingly reflect the
racially mixed demographics of the nation’s cities; Republicans remain
overwhelmingly white, older and more rural.
That hasn’t always been true — a generation ago, the voters supporting the two parties were far more alike.
Now, a new, large-scale study has documented how much the mix of voters who support each of the two parties has changed. The conclusion: The two party coalitions are now more different than at any point in the past generation.
The Democrats have changed the most, as the mix of voters who support them has grown less white, less religious, more college-educated, younger and more liberal over the past decade, according to the study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
That hasn’t always been true — a generation ago, the voters supporting the two parties were far more alike.
Now, a new, large-scale study has documented how much the mix of voters who support each of the two parties has changed. The conclusion: The two party coalitions are now more different than at any point in the past generation.
The Democrats have changed the most, as the mix of voters who support them has grown less white, less religious, more college-educated, younger and more liberal over the past decade, according to the study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Nothing
has changed except a) the source nations, and b) the numbers. Previous generations of immigrants all voted Democrat
too and continue to do so today. Irish, Italians, Jews, they all voted for more
government handouts and in the interests of their own people at the expense of
the native stock. Now the Chinese, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Somalis are doing
the same thing, it's just that there are more of them, they look more obviously
different, and their values and traditions are even more opposed to American
values and traditions.
Meanwhile, except for the growing number of single white women who need government support because they can't provide for themselves and their illegitimate children, white people are increasingly gravitating to a single party in order to defend what remains of their interests.
So, what Pew is observing is nothing less than the large-scale transformation of white people from ideology-based politics to identity-based politics in a single generation. As I predicted several years ago, the two major parties will be the White Party and the Not-White Party, regardless of what they are officially called in order to maintain the pretense of a single nation.
Meanwhile, except for the growing number of single white women who need government support because they can't provide for themselves and their illegitimate children, white people are increasingly gravitating to a single party in order to defend what remains of their interests.
So, what Pew is observing is nothing less than the large-scale transformation of white people from ideology-based politics to identity-based politics in a single generation. As I predicted several years ago, the two major parties will be the White Party and the Not-White Party, regardless of what they are officially called in order to maintain the pretense of a single nation.