Should Republicans Just Focus on White Voters?

[darrmad]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/should-republicans-just-focus-on-white-voters/

For two decades, from 1972 to 1992, the Democratic Party agonized over its loss of support among whites, especially those in the working class. Over the next two decades, from the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 to the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012, the party slowly came to terms with its loss and learned how to win the presidency with a minority of white voters.

Now the white vote has become a Republican problem. White voters cast 72 percent of all votes in the Obama-Romney election of 2012 compared to 87 percent in the Nixon-McGovern contest in 1972. Should the Republican Party accept the fact that the white majority in the United States is getting smaller or should it bet on boosting Republican margins and turnout rates among whites to record levels?

The debate within the Republican Party on this fraught topic has provoked new levels of over-the-top rhetoric among the old guard on the farther right side of the Republican spectrum.

[RamoneWooddell]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/should-republicans-just-focus-on-white-voters/

For two decades, from 1972 to 1992, the Democratic Party agonized over its loss of support among whites, especially those in the working class. Over the next two decades, from the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 to the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012, the party slowly came to terms with its loss and learned how to win the presidency with a minority of white voters.

Now the white vote has become a Republican problem. White voters cast 72 percent of all votes in the Obama-Romney election of 2012 compared to 87 percent in the Nixon-McGovern contest in 1972. Should the Republican Party accept the fact that the white majority in the United States is getting smaller or should it bet on boosting Republican margins and turnout rates among whites to record levels?

The debate within the Republican Party on this fraught topic has provoked new levels of over-the-top rhetoric among the old guard on the farther right side of the Republican spectrum.

The Republican party is a war party nearky from its beginning before the War for Southern Independence. They should lose the whole white vote in the South. Of course the Democratic party has fallen far below whst the used to be. They should lose the minority vote in the South. If we would choose to avoid their system altogether then that would be a step in the right direction.

[Originalist]

The Republican party is a war party nearky from its beginning before the War for Southern Independence. They should lose the whole white vote in the South. Of course the Democratic party has fallen far below whst the used to be. They should lose the minority vote in the South. If we would choose to avoid their system altogether then that would be a step in the right direction.

I've often thought that the GOP resents the fact that much of its support is from the States that comprised the former Confederate States of America. I think this is because they know we are Republicans not because the GOP is the part of Lincoln, but in spite of the fact that it is the party of Lincoln. The GOP was founded as the party of consolidation and big government and the establishment desperately wants to take the party back to its roots. This is why they obsess over the black vote and the Northeast white vote while ignoring southern Conservatives. The fact that it is white southerners who are actually electing black candidates is a huge embarrassment to them.