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Originally Posted by redstone357
Courting blacks and browns is a disasterous idea for republicans. They need to worry about being conservative and not spending like druken demonrats next time they have power, that will do more than anything for them. 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. Browns will come to republicans only if they see them as a viable alternative to the left. But republicans should more than anthing embrace whites, who make up the lions share of their voters. Doing things for and to help whites would be excellent since we are under attack from the left. Kevin McDonald wrote an excellent piece for the Occidental Observer on this issue here it is.... Occidental Observer |
In your link it points out that in the last election, 70% of the votes were cast by European-Americans, that in 2012, this will fall to 65%.
The case that the GOP can win by focusing on whites is undone by the fact that the Democrats also focus on whites. Because not all whites are in the top 1% of income earners or even the top 20%. At 70% of the electorate, a minimum of 20% find themselves in the bottom half, and since the average Asian-American and the average Jewish-American do better than the average white, you are looking at something closer to 40 or 45% of whites being in the bottom half of income earners.
Calling for Tax breaks and balanced budgets, health savings accounts and getting rid of Social Security and student loan programs is not the way to lure these people into the GOP, they are every bit as enamored of social spending as their darker skinned countrymen.
And half of those white voters are women, many of whom have benefited from affirmative action. Union voters in those industries that still find a home the the US are mostly white.
If the white vote were a small portion of the US electorate, like it is in South Africa, you might expect it to vote overwhelmingly for a party that represents it's best interests. But the white vote itself in the US is diverse and much of that white vote does not see the GOP as representing it's best interests, because the GOP does not represent it's best interests.
Look at the current situation, the economic collapse is not something that falls heavily on minorities and largely skips whites, it has fallen pretty heavily on the average white, so railing against Obama, and denigrating his efforts to stave off complete economic collapse may find eager to believe ears amongst the well to do who feel they do pay too much in taxes, but it also will find deaf ears amongst those who feel a real threat to their jobs, their homes, their economic livelihood.
The problem the GOP has is that it pursued a policy of pursuing the racist vote amongst that huge white vote, and the GOP pretty much has the white racist vote locked up, but that vote is in faster decline than the white vote in general, and the cost of procuring that vote has been to write off the votes of many affluent minorities who would be natural consumers of the GOP message.