Mr Khan said:
C'mon, Republicans got 3/5ths of the white vote, more if you look further up the age brackets, and the three drums that they really focused on where about scary foreigners and immigrants. Poorer whites, who would have economic reason to vote democrat, tend even further towards Republicans. So much of the Republican party's strength these days is race-based, just that no-one (even most of the folks voting with such motivations) wants to admit it because no one likes to think they're racist, for the most part. |
Obama got 93%/95% of the black vote in 2012/2008, versus Kerry's 88% in 2004. Are African-Americans so racist that they only (or mostly) voted for Obama because of his African ancestry? As for the immigration thing, I think the concern there is much less about race and much more about these demographics voting democrat (more consistently than republican.) If these immigrants voted republican, then republicans would be entirely on the opposite end of the issue (as would be democrats.)
