“Too white, too old to win.”
http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3357
by Ellison Lodge
When Peter Brimelow was still at National Review, he wrote a piece entitled “Electing a New People” detailing how mass immigration is a disaster for the GOP. He opened with the line, “Demography is destiny in American Politics.” Few Republicans took him seriously at the time. And now when groups like the http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=7629 smear Brimelow as a “racist,” they take the quote out of its “in American Politics” context.
The reason is that discussing racial and demographic differences in voting patterns is slightly less taboo than other areas—such as immigration or education. It’s nearly impossible to ignore the fact that 88-95% of blacks vote Democratic while every Republican since Barry Goldwater has won the majority of the white vote.
But even this area has become frequently sparse of intelligent content in the age of Obama. The chatter is usually limited to the importance of pandering to minorities—Hispanics in particular, and how the GOP’s Southern Strategy to win working class whites that gave Nixon and Reagan landslide victories was not only immoral but a losing plan.But in the last few weeks, a number of analysts and strategists have rediscovered the fact that winning white voters still matters. A July 20 study showed that in 2008, turnout among whites was down 1 percent, 1.5 percent among older whites. While much was made out of the 5 percent increase in black turnout, the total number of white voters who stayed home was still much greater than the number of new black voters who came out for Obama.
Coincidentally, that same day, prominent GOP strategist Bill Greener wrote a typical pandering column for Salon entitled “My GOP: Too white, too old to win.”
http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_white_people_party/