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Originally Posted by redstone357
Blacks vote en masse for one party, they always have. First the republicans and now the demonrats. There is nothing that can be done about this except wait a few more genterations for them to culturally mature to a place where they are more politically sophisiticated.
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Blacks are quite "politically sophisticated" now, and were in the days when they voted
en masse for Republicans, too. What you're calling unsophistication is actually open-eyed realism. They've always known they were at the bottom of the totem pole, and have voted for those who they thought most likely to even the playing field. At one time that was the Party of Lincoln. Later on, it was the Party of LBJ. Now, it's the Party of Obama.
I'll agree with you to this extent. With the cultural progress we're seeing and the nearly-nil level of racism in the Millennial generation, a few more generations will likely see genuine economic parity between black people and the rest of the country, and that will make differences among black people politically more important, while the fact of being black becomes less so. At that point, the black vote will become less monolithic, just as already the relatively few well-off blacks tend to vote more Republican than blacks considered overall. However, in order for this to happen, it's a given that you will have liberal (on these issues) dominance over the time necessary for those future generations to be born and come of age.
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But republicans should more than anthing embrace whites, who make up the lions share of their voters.
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The trouble with this approach, as McDonald himself acknowledged in your linked article, is that whites are a shrinking demographic as a proportion of the population; moreover, Republican voters are a shrinking demographic among white people. Younger voters are dissilusioned with the GOP and with the "conservative" positions on issues from the recent past. Now liberal dominance (like conservative dominance) is a cyclic thing and never lasts, so at some point in the future we will reach a point where something that might reasonably be called "conservative" is a politically viable brand, BUT if the GOP identifies its form of "conservatism" with the ethnic interests of white people, then it as a party will be in no position to take advantage of that cyclic shift. I say this because white identity politics is on the way out, dying, and never coming back as a dominant force.
This is, very simply, a recipe for political suicide for the Republican Party.