The Fulford File | White Share Update: BOSTON GLOBE’s Renee Loth Wrong On “The GOP’s Demographics Problem” — Romney COULD Win With The White Vote, He Just Hasn’t Tried
GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s share of the white vote — a.k.a. the votes of the historic American nation — is discussed in the Main Stream Media only as an embarrassment.
The MSM apparently thinks Romney has too many white supporters. Thus Renée Loth, the former editorial page editor of the Boston Globe, wrote in a typical innumerate article today (illustrated with the picture, below right, — obviously insinuating that the old America is fat and dying out):
If demographics is destiny, the Republican Party has a rendezvous with irrelevance — unless its policies change. This is the message some Republican leaders have been sending in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Senator Lindsey Graham recently told the Washington Post with characteristic bluntness. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
The numbers tell the tale. Minorities have accounted for 85 percent of the country’s population growth over the past decade, according to the US Census Bureau. A record 24 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, up 22 percent since 2008. Meanwhile, nearly 87 percent of registered Republican voters are white. And whites have declined as a portion of the electorate in every presidential election since 1992.
It’s getting harder and harder to cobble together a winning coalition based on the grievances of a diminishing faction of white men, and many Republicans know it. An unnamed strategist was quoted in the National Journal in August explaining that Mitt Romney campaign’s formula for winning the presidency involves capturing 61 percent of the white vote (more than any candidate since Ronald Reagan). “This is the last time anyone will try to do this,” the strategist said. [Links added by VDARE.com][More]
Renée Loth is a liberal Democrat, writing for a liberal Democratic paper. She’s in favor of both the immivasion, and of the GOP self-destructing by turning liberal.
The demographic transformation of America didn’t just happen — it was planned. It’s a result of specific government policies — mass legal immigration unleashed by the 1965 Immigration Act; massive non-enforcement of laws against illegal immigration.
Those policies could be changed, by a Republican administration with a good sense of its own and the country’s interests — which is not, of course, what we’ve got.
Finally, and above all: as we have repeatedly pointed out, MITT ROMNEY IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO GETTING 61% OF THE WHITE VOTE. And he’s not even trying to get 61% of the white vote — if he were, he’d be doing this. As a result, he’s at a mere 50% in Michigan and an appalling 45% in California.
The phrase “demographics is destiny” that Ms. Loth uses above is commonly attributed to Simon Kuznets. Peter Brimelow’s more pointed and much criticized formulation: “race is destiny in American politics”. [Alien Nation, p. 264]
Certainly blacks think so. It turns out that it is very possible to get more than 61 percent of an ethnic group — Obama is doing it! He’s getting up to a hundred percent of the black vote, and sometimes 70 percent of the Hispanics.
There are, by the way, areas of the country where the GOP does get that level of support from whites — in Alabama and Mississippi, 88 percent of whites voted for John McCain.
We could also ask, not “Why is the GOP so white?” but why are Democrats the black party — and why do blacks refuse to support the GOP? What’s the matter with them?
So Romney’s white share is up a point from Friday. But it’s still in the pathetic Bush-McCain range, well below that 61 percent. For the record, Reagan got 64% in 1984 and Richard Nixon got 67% in 1972. (More white share comparisons here — scroll down).
