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November 03, 2009
A demographic preference for tiredness?
For entertainment purposes only, I thought I'd juxtapose two radically different opinions on the future of the Democratic Party. From WSJ's Daniel Henninger in "Why Dems Should Start to Sweat": ...what we are seeing with this massive legislation is that the Democrats in Washington have a bigger problem: Their party is looking so yesterday.For an opposite view, Open Left has a piece titled "Why Republicans Should Be Really Scared," which maintains (with plenty of charts and numbers) that population demographics heavily favor the Democrats: Not only are non-whites a growing share of the electorate and highly likely to vote for Democrats, but both non-whites and whites are increasingly likely to vote for Democrats. Republicans are in deep doo-doo. This idea has been gaining traction over the past year, but it cannot be repeated enough.Is this an either or situation, or might both positions have merit? I mean, suppose the Democrats are tired (I think they are), and that non-whites prefer the tired politics of the past (which I hope they don't). To my mind, the latter might suggest that a growing number of Americans are being led instead of thinking for themselves. That would suck, so I'm going to hope it's wrong. posted by Eric on 11.03.09 at 12:34 AM
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Shrug. Democrats depend on identity politics. As minorities become integrated, they abandon this tribalist mentality and vote GOP. TallDave · November 3, 2009 11:37 AM As minorities become integrated, they abandon this tribalist mentality and vote GOP. That's why the Democrats promote multiculturalism and abhor the melting pot. Eric Scheie · November 3, 2009 12:49 PM Eric, Tribalism happened in the migrations of the 1880 to 1910 era. It is slowly giving way with intermarriage. Only took 100 years. My kids are Russian, Romanian, Italian, Finnish. And it only took 4 generations. About 100 years. M. Simon · November 3, 2009 01:38 PM Post a comment
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