FAIR and its allies are now making a curious argument to convince wobbly GOP lawmakers that they shoudl stick to their anti-immigration positions even after taking a shellacking at the polls last month. The argument goes that Hispanics will never love you so don't bother trying to court them by moving to the center on immigration reform.
The problem with this argument is that it essentially is telling the GOP to start studying up on the Whig Party because they're heading down the same road. There is no way the GOP will make it as a national party in this country without improving its standing with minority voters and with Hispanics in particular. That truth became even more clear when the US Census released figures this week showing that the white population in this country will begin a steady decline beginning at the end of this decade while the fastest growing demographic is the children of immigrants. Math is math. And if the vast majority of minority voters regard your party with disdain and you can't reverse that, say good bye.
"When Minorities will become a Majority, that will be the end of the U.S.A."
If there were no minorities, more whites will be killing other whites and CT will be repeated all over the country at least once a month. Perhaps with minorities becoming majority fewer white people will kill, period.
Posted by: George Chell | December 15, 2012 at 08:45 PM
When Minorities will become a Majority, that will be the end of the U.S.A.
Posted by: Average Joe | December 15, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I will bet that Lamountain is wrong. It is the Dems who secretly dont want to give amnesty because they fear that once the Hispanics get what they want they will go back to the GOP.
Posted by: George Chell | December 14, 2012 at 05:10 AM
Here are some arguments against Republican pandering:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/121112-636644-illegal-alien-amnesty-dooms-republicans.htm?p=full
Posted by: Jack | December 14, 2012 at 01:04 AM
With all due respect to Greg, if I had committed the crimes that the ancestors of some of the whites committed..Rosewood, Tulsa, St. Louis, Washington DC, Boise (anti-Asian riots), Humboldt County (Asian sundown town), I would be scared to death to..of my impending minority status. FAIR is against all immigration..I was in LA last week and I heard that some people in that organization are not too happy about American caucasian men and Asian mail order brides...and FAIR would like to stop it if they could. Having said that, I hope the minorities dont stoop to the disgraceful level of the white ancestors when we all become minorities in our country.
Posted by: George Chell | December 13, 2012 at 01:14 PM