A Closer Look at Hispanic Voting Trends
On most sociological characteristics, Hispanics tend to be somewhere in between blacks and whites. On average, Hispanics have slightly higher incomes, a lower out-of-wedlock birthrate, a lower unemployment rate, and a lower crime rate than blacks, but are much poorer than whites and Asians. The poverty rates for black and Hispanic families are essentially even at roughly 25%. Blacks have slightly higher levels of education: 16 percent of blacks have college degrees, compared to 14 percent of Hispanics, while another 60 percent of blacks have a minimum of 12 years of education, compared to 49 percent for Hispanics.
For two decades after the Immigration Act, Hispanic turnout didn’t come close to their population strength due to low citizenship rates and a younger population. In 1988, Hispanics voted at roughly one-quarter of their potential strength. But a few years later, that began to change, and in a big way. In 1994, California Republican Gov. Pete Wilson found himself trailing badly in the polls due to severe economic problems. He decided to use immigration as a “wedge issue” by promoting Proposition 187, which would have cut off public services to the American-born children of illegal immigrants.
This tactic worked in the short run, as Wilson was easily re-elected. But it backfired quickly because it threatened the one thing Hispanic families consider most precious: their children. California Hispanics registered Democrat in droves after Proposition 187, as did their relatives in other states.
The upsurge in Hispanic registration and voting began in 1996 and continues today. More than 2 million Hispanics in California — and more than 7 million nationally — have registered for the first time, almost all as Democrats. Network exit polls and the Census Bureau both reported that the Hispanic share of the electorate more than tripled from 3 percent to 10 percent in the last two decades. And once Hispanic citizens register to vote, their turnout at the polls is just about at the national average.
It must be emphasized that unlike blacks, Hispanics are not an ethnic or political monolith. The general patterns are: 1) Puerto Ricans live in the Northeast and vote almost exclusively for Democrats (Rudy Giuliani was a prominent exception); 2) Cubans are mostly upper middle class, well-educated, and usually vote Republican (e.g., President Reagan won 92% in the Cuban precincts of Greater Miami in 1984); 3) the largest Hispanic sub-groups — Mexicans and Central/South Americans — are targeted by both parties but have voted Democrat for president ranging from a high of 90-95% for FDR, JFK, and LBJ to a low of 60% when Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush were re-elected.
History shows that when Republican presidents — Nixon, Reagan, and the George W. Bush — make an effort to court Hispanics (usually by supporting immigration reform), they can win up to 40% of their votes, thus greatly neutralizing this Democratic bloc vote. But when they allow harsh immigration policies on the GOP platform, they lose Hispanic votes by the millions. President Bush in 2004 endorsed a form of amnesty for undocumented immigrants and won about 40% of the Hispanic vote. Mitt Romney said that he wanted illegal aliens to “self-deport” and saw a record-breaking 10 million Hispanics vote against him.
The future of Hispanic politics — and increasingly, the fate of the Republican Party — lies in the children of immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
What should scare Republicans is that Obama in 2012 won almost half (48%) of the normally Republican Cuban vote in Florida.
Amnesty encourages illegal immigration. Illegal immigration cheapens the cost of labor. The people that vote for “immigration reform” are mostly the very people hurt by it. If both parties embrace this for political gain, is there any reason to have a border or a Border Patrol?
You are correct in pointing out that the illegals are a source of cheaper labor. And the moderates who own the mass media are fine with that, even if it means displacing other workers and middle-class professionals. I was stunned to see ths episode of GLEE that could have been written by any Latino irredentist: http://clarespark.com/2012/02/09/glee-goes-la-raza/.
Obama for one, thinks not. he’s just cut wages to border control agents by 32%. Only history will tell what went wrong here in the U.S. but I think this is no less than an internal coup. Those who understand the pan-Leninist agenda can predict Obama’s next move and it’s all about the OIS, the UN and government by treaty and decree.
so are you saying that illegals now own the usa?
Yes. It’s big-city machine politics, using each set of newcomers as a club to hit the previous set over the head with.
But considering the fact that the 2012 general election was stolen, as were the 2008 and 2012 GOP primaries, and every election from now on will be stolen, it doesn’t matter who votes or what they vote for any more.
We are Reconquering the Southwest…and you gringos can’t stop us. Our population is rapidly growing, and the gringo population is aging and declining. We are over 52 million and united. You are down to 63.4% and extremely divided…and will be a minority by 2041. We are already a majority of the population under 18 in Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico and Arizona… and are rapidly taking over Nevada, Colorado, and Florida.
We are young and vigorous. You gringos are old and tired. We are the future. Your time has passed. We have defeated you without firing a shot. It is too late for you gringos to stop us from taking over the country. Gringos are down to only 53.5% of the population under 18…and a minority of births since 2010. You gringos will soon be a minority, and lose control of your own destiny. We will control who gets elected President. We will DOMINATE Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico and Arizona…and will be the swing voters in the swing states — Nevada, Colorado, and Florida. Whoever doesn’t do La Raza’s bidding will be thrown out of office.
We have Reconquered the Southwest from you gringos without firing a shot. Don’t you see that we have defeated you? You have no leaders, no hope, no future. You gringos will soon pay the price for your sins against us. The 21st century will undo and reverse the 19th century. La Reconquista is almost complete. It is only a matter of time. We are nearly there. In a few years it will all be over for you gringos.
Do you understand that we are CONQUERING this country right now right in front of your eyes, in broad daylight, without a shot being fired? Do you understand that we are CONQUERING America right now…and that your leaders are like the American Indian chiefs who sold their tribes out for bottles of Kickapoo Joy Juice and some repeating rifles…
We have already RECONQUERED the entire Southwest — Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico, and Arizona. We will soon have control of Nevada, Colorado, Florida, and Utah. After that, we will proceed to invade, conquer, and colonize the entire country. We are repopulating the country. We will eventually drive all you gringos out of the country, to Canada, back to Europe, to Mars, whatever, just get the hell out of this country because we’re taking over, and we don’t want you racist gringos here. We will drive you gringos out of here as sure as I’m standing here.
We have CONQUERED you without firing a shot. La Raza is 52 million strong…and by 2050 there will be 135 million of us concentrated in the Southwest that borders Mexico which will have nearly 150 million people. La Reconquista is almost complete. We are taking back the Southwest, the land that you gringos stole from us in the 19th century. Demographics Is Destiny. We are repopulating the country. It is all over for you gringos. By 2041 you gringos will be a minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. By 2050 we will be 135 million strong, about 30% of the population, an overwhelming majority in the Southwest — and an even greater percentage of children. We will soon be an outright majority.
The Gringo’s world is ending… Not with a bang but a whimper.The Gringo is going gentle into that good night… Don’t rage against the dying of the Gringo’s light. Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Re your reconquering the Southwest – Did we drive you out, or did you drive the Indians out and then we drove you out, or did the Indians drive out your fascist occupation of them, then we drove out the Indians?
I think it was the latter. That we conquered the Southwest by fighting Indians. Your people really weren’t there, were they?
Please don’t feed the troll. Every time the topic comes up, this individual reposts this exact same screed.
Please ignore them.
Yeah, yeah… we’ve read that same cut-and-pasted garbage from you and other La Raza posters for years. Try writing something original for a change. Yes, we know you make babies faster than whites and will eventually outnumber us. Fine. I will then be long dead and you will have turned the United States into a dump. Then you will have to face growing numbers of Muslims – who have far more babies than Hispanics, and who have have swords far bigger than your switchblades.
You may be correct but your implied conclusion that your reconquista will result in prosperity is wrong. Los soldatos de le reconquista son los pobres de La Raza. The very people that you will depend on to finance your Utopia de La Raza will be gone and you will be left with your own few Makers financing what little “todo” there is por los Takers de La Raza. Bueno Suerte with that amigo.
Looking at you and the raza I figured we still have a long long time in America, inventing tortillas isn’t much to surviving this modern world ,you’ll still need gringos to keep you alive unless you want to live like you live in Mexico.
You are correct, you are taking back the southwest. But it will not be before we squeeze the last drop of usefulness out of it. You will be left with a smoking husk of what it used to be. You will be left with incredible debt, 45% unemployment, 40% welfare and 15% graduation rate. You will have to work 30 hours a day to be able to fund all the pensions of people who have retired and moved to other locations. So go ahead, take it back, see how you like it when it is no better than Tijauna!
At La Raza,
Do you even believe all the nonsense that you wrote, I couldn’t even read all your comment. 52 million and united, really? The land that as you said was stolen from Mexico is a thousand times better off now, but of course it would be even better if lazy, unproductive and ignorant people like you where not here. There are plenty of Mexicans and Hispanics that are happy of the opportunities that this Country has given us, and we are happy to work hard, pay our taxes and provide for our families that are less lucky than us and are still back in Mexico or other Latin-American countries. I am sure you don’t even understand the meaning of hard work and you might be only a product of some unlucky parents that sacrificed everything for you, so you can become an ignorant entitled being.
If you hate the Gringos and the U.S.A. so much, why don’t you deport yourself to wherever you came from? I am sure that there are plenty of people just here that are willing to chip in for your one-way ticket. And I am sure you will be happier there with your racism and your failure to become a better person on your own. Not all Mexicans or Hispanics are as stupid as you are and no, you are not conquering anything, no matter how many people have brainwashed you. You are a shame to whatever Country you think you belong to. I do feel pity for you, because you will never know what a better life is, unless you grow up and stand for your self and take responsibility of your own life.
Yawn. Same crap…same ethnocentric line for 40 years. Yawn. Mow my lawn La Raza. You are boring and irrelevant.
Todavía un poco adolorida sobre el pegado en el siglo XIX, que veo. a pesar de que México fue pagado por la compra de los desiertos del sudoeste. ¿Pero entonces, usted prides es realmente todo lo que tienes, neh?
After how many generations living in the US and at what “percentage” (i.e. 50%, 25%, 12.5%, 6.25%) is someone still considered “hispanic”?
Just a thought, when your kids apply to college (or govt jobs or whatever) make sure you check the box “hispanic” as there is no legal definition.
I am reminded of a recent comment by a Canadian on a blog. The Canadian blogger stated his occupation as an airport worker. He related the day a foreigner, possessing legal immigration papers into Canada, came up to him at the airport and asked: “Where’s my check?”
What is the attitude of latinos and latinas regarding this question?
Hispanics are “social conservatives” and “natural Republicans”? They have “family values”? What world do you live in?
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, 52% of Hispanics favor allowing gay marriage, while only 34% are opposed.
Hispanics had a 53.3% illegitimacy rate in 2011 according to the CDC.
That is because Latinas’ are Catholic and don’t have abortions?
Wrong.
Latinas’ have an abortion rate of 19.3 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age, compared to white women who only have an abortion rate of 8.5 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age.
Going back to 1980, the Republicans have consistently lost the “Hispanic vote” by huge margins, ranging from Dole losing it by 51 points to Clinton in 1996 — 72-21 — to Bush losing it by “only” 18 points to Kerry in 2004 — 58-40. Dubya Hispandered to Mexicans and illegals more than you could imagine … he still got trounced amongst Hispanics. In 1980 & 1984, Reagan received 35% & 37% of the “Hispanic vote”. In 1986, Reagan signed an Amnesty. How did Hispanics reward Republican? In 1988, H W Bush received 30% of the “Hispanic vote”.
We are told, the reason why Hispanics don’t vote Republican is because of the Republican hardliners on immigration i.e. the Pat Buchanans, the Tom Tancredos, the J D Hayworths… If only we embrace the Dream Act and provide a path to citizenship — amnesty — the GOP’s problem is solved.
The Republican capacity for self-delusion is truly awesome.
Set aside the idealized Hispanic of the Republican consultants’ vision. What does the real Hispanic community look like today?
Let us consider only native-born Hispanics, U.S. citizens.
According to Census Bureau statistics from 2012:
– More than one in five Hispanic citizens lives in poverty.
– One in four Hispanic-American men 25 to 55 is out of work.
– More than half of all Hispanic women 25-55 are unmarried.
– Half of all Hispanic households with children are headed by an unmarried woman, and 55 percent depend on welfare programs.
These numbers do not improve with time, as they did with the Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish and German immigrants who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920. Third-generation Hispanics do worse than second-generation Hispanics in all the above categories.
Why should Hispanics vote for a party that will cut taxes they don’t pay, but reduce benefits they do receive?
Hispanics are big government people. And why should they not be?
Bingo!
As far as the Catholic aspect is concerned, it’s irrelevant. The majority of Catholics don’t care about the edicts issued by old desk-bound celibate males. In fact, Catholic women have abortions at the same rate as the general population (some studies indicate higher).
Bush didn’t get “trounced.” In 2004, he won about 44% of the Hispanic vote.
If Romney had done that well, he would have won Florida, Nevada, and Colorado. (Without Florida and Ohio, no Republican can win a Presidential election.)
The GOP doesn’t have to try to win a majority of the Hispanic vote. But they ought to set as a goal to consistently do as well among Hispanics as Bush had done.
At the present rate, by around the year 2040 or so, white voters will be down to only 63% of the electorate. At that point, it will be impossible for a Republican to win a Presidential election without minority votes–because one-fifth of those whites will always be liberal and won’t vote for a Republican.
Sorry Patrick, these are the correct statistics. They are also the trends.
The social problems of this demographic (such as the fatherless family) are the same problems that afflict the underclass everywhere. Since most of these immigrants derive from their home country’s underclass, the problems come with them. Middle class immigrants have much better values.
We need to take in less of the underclass population – they are burdens to the taxpayer and to our society.
Unlike Blacks, Hispanics assimilate into the larger “white” identity. The growth rates projected don’t take this into account. They’re likely not going to grow as fast as all the “experts” think, because more and more second and third generation Hispanics will identify as “white”.
In the same area, thought you might be interested in the following sent to Mr Cardenas (American Conservative Union President) with his article “Republicans too white, male, old” in the Washington Times.
Barry Ceminchuk
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Barry Ceminchuk
To: “yourletters@washingtontimes.com” ; “info@conservative.org”
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: CARDENAS: Republicans too white, male, old
I am a Canadian who has attended 3 of the last 4 CPACs looking for ideas to start a true conservative party in Canada. I enjoy the sessions at CPAC and have learned a lot.
With the above column, I have some comments below, but it seems to be going against the conservative principles of not labeling people and assuming they are all the same by their race and gender and age, and being for special treatment for a group (immigration reform).
With the column, specifically it says “Mr. Romney received 59 percent of the white vote on election night. That’s the highest percentage of any Republican candidate challenging an incumbent president in U.S. history.” and “The greatest gains to be had are with Latinos — the fastest-growing voting bloc in our country.” and “The Republican message has resonated with Hispanics before. Both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush received more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.”
I would think that the greatest gains to be made are to take white voters from the Democrats. The 41% of whites who voted for the Democrats are the biggest block.
Gains in Hispanics may add couple of percent to the total Republican vote. If Romney got 30% of the Hispanic vote and Bush got 40, then 50 is perhaps the maximum, which is a gain of about 20% of Hispanics, which is about a 2% gain in the total vote (Hispanics are about 10% of the total vote).
Gains in whites could add 10″s of percent of the total vote, wiping out the Democrats everywhere.
There are also religious people, especially Catholics, who again would wipe out the Democrats.
One way to do this is to use the Democrats pushing race preferences with jobs, contracts and education places against the Democrats. I would think, that for example, few Asian or Mid-Eastern or White people would vote for Democrats if they really knew that the Democrats (and their judge pals) want to displace and bar them and their children from education places, jobs and contracts.
I am amazed any white guys support the Democrats, dumb. Democrats want to displace and bar white guys from jobs and contracts, and Asian, Mid-Eastern and White children from education places with race preferences. Only a moron and sucker would support the Democrats.
If the Republicans take white guys (and their wives, children, relatives) and Asian and Mid-Eastern people away from the Democrats, the Democrats will be wiped out. As they should be.
I am also concerned the mention of immigration reform. First, the people being talked about are not immigrants, they are illegal aliens who have violated the law. Second, they want special treatment for themselves, they have not followed the rules and have no respect for law and blatantly disregard the law. Do you want to reward these people, and the people smugglers who brought them in? Is this the type of people you want as citizens?
If the Republicans go with amnesty they will not get credit for it and they will just be giving the Democrats millions of votes. The Democrats have these interest groups in their pockets. And it will alienate many whites that will not vote for them, they will not turn up at the polls (like what happened this election). They have also not thought of the point that people can bring in relatives, so with amnesty, the numbers are much larger.
And, you should be careful with things like this, someone could get the idea to bring in millions of Chinese or Indians and try the same thing.
Although I am an old white male and I do not see it this way, but some people could see this column as saying there are too many of us and that we should go away, not welcome.
Barry Ceminchuk
Go to hell, Canuck!!!
Know La Raza well from growing up: the same impotent bragging that I have heard for many years.
I remember one time I saw a young Mexican have someone make a t-shirt reading “If yor’re not chicano you’re not caca.” When it was made, he couldn’t pay for it and left the store.
Many groups are on board with having a lot more Hispanics a mix of politicos and self-pitying chapel-rats, hoping to find the next Rigoberta Minchu.
I know from personal experience that most Hispanic cultures are cesspools and rather than seeking a better life, they are merely bringing the same old one here.
I don’t think a majority of people no matter who they are will want to make a commitment to pay for the political support of what is a grasping arrogant minority.
I personally never had any problem because I am not a coward like many here in the East.
He is not Mexican. He is a phony. I have seen him throw out other false identities with the same tone.
The funniest thing to me is how liberals politically separate out ethnic groups as if they have specific needs but to do that in any other sector of society they call racism. That’s why liberals are truly Orwell’s children.
Whenever wealthy whites try to exploit a source of cheap labor, i.e. pay sub-par wages, it seems to backfire on them. I cite slavery, illegal immigration and goods made in China as examples of short term benefits causing tong term problems.
As long as we are giving the country away, why don’t we give it to the Chinese? The Chinese are intelligent, industrious and family-oriented. We could simply open our doors to them with the promise that they would not be restricted to a one-child-per-family policy. With their numbers, it would be no time at all before they became the largest population group in the U.S., with the support of the Republican party. It certainly makes more sense than importing the welfare-for-votes groups that the Democrats have promoted since the Kennedy-Johnson era.
All the advice to the GOP on how it can win the Hispanic (or black) vote is a waste of time. The parasites now outnumber the producers and the nation is lost. We will never get it back. It matters little whether the GOP candidate gets 37% or 40% of the Hispanic vote, or 6% or 7% of the black vote. It simply is not enough to overcome the parasite votes.
There is no longer a political middle. There are leftists and the parasites on one side, and the producers and capitalists in the other. Neither side will be able to persuade the other to change its ideology. We conservatives would be better off picking a few contiguous states and seceding. I’m tired of playing the political games every second November.
You perhaps underestimate the role that the Republican party has played in creating an underclass dependent upon taxpayer largesse. Ever since Eisenhower the party has dreamed of reclaiming the black vote, which was dependably Republican until the New Deal. That’s why Nixon and the two Bushes lavished so much political capital on expanding and centralizing welfare programs. You and I both believe that it’s a fool’s errand, but the Republican party is run by a coterie who believe in the Miltonic principle: it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven. The last thing that the elites want to see is (mostly white) taxpayers uniting as a majority for our own ends.
Republican latinos are more to the left on the economy than Democrat European Americans.
They believe in a planned economy. It makes logical sense. You plan your household economy. You plan business activity. You got to have a plan, man.
Most people have never been exposed to the idea that a chaotic marketplace is the way to go. I stumbled into the public library and read the Wall Steet Journal and the world changed for me in a quick minute.
Predictable elite Republican/Libertarian embrace of amnesty/ever greater immigration, as the solution to the Republican electoral difficulties. Two problems: First, as demonstrated in a NYTimes article last week analyzing the swing states, Romney would not have won a single swing state if he had achieved a 40% Hispanic vote margin. Thus, the premise that Romney’s failure to pander to the Hispanic vote was fatal to his campaign is factually false.
Second, as also demonstrated in the same article, the exit polling of Hispanic voters shows that they are not the “natrual conservative” voters Republican elites have portrayed. On abortion and gay marriage their attitudes are considerably more liberal than white voters; same with repeal of Obamacare and support for a larger welfare state. But rest assured, the Republican elites will join with Democrats to pass another amnesty for the 12 million illegals here, and encourage still more immigration in the decades to follow. When the history of the decline and fall of the American republic is written, the Republican electoral suicide starting with Simpson-Mazzoli will astound our future Gibbon.
If white people don’t know how to make babies they will and should be replaced. Social Security isn’t the only thing that will crash with a falling population.
My guess is that it was just the boomers and the millennial that can’t figure out which hole it goes in.
Basically no one wants to hear it, but there are a lot of conservative blacks, hispanics, asians what have you. But no one wants to vote for people that don’t like them and complain endlessly about them.
I’m not a good Christian but I think you know how a Christian is supposed to attract people to a faith. By showing it works. Not by complaining about the ungodly. I would infer the same applies to someone who loves freedom and wants to share that love.
The takers vs. makers notion seems irrelevant to me.
Most of the takers in the country are still consumers. They might “take” from the tax payers or the credit card companies, but they’ll use whatever money they have in the greater economy, and benefit some “makers”. Not a few of them probably packed every black Friday locations. Trendy new apple products and fashion items, they’ll get it too.
The concern over deficits falls on deaf ears, because it just doesn’t manifest in a way that impacts their daily lives. The government can just keep on printing money, and Hollywood and Apple will keep on raking profits.
I don’t think the nation will turn to limited government unless the 1% the left despises falls down hard.
STOP with all the trends!!
obama won the election by fraud. demographics have nothing to do with it. the guy doesn’t even have a legitimate birth certificate and you all are worrying about the Latino vote, get your head out of your a@@.
Once upon a time in history the citizens of nations that were invaded by barbarians actually only lost their wealth and property when the barbarians came in person and stole it from them. Today the barbarians need not bother. Our own government does the stealing for them and hands them out the loot.
What is it? One-third of the folks on welfare in the US live in California? And how many of them are, or are the spawn of, illegal aliens?
And how dare the stupid little taxpayers complain? When they do call them names and slap them down. But what many people call racism is often just a recognition of cold, hard statistics.
Reddy repeats the myth that Prop 187 was the cause of Republican troubesl in California, when the Hispanic affinity for the Democrat party in California predated that ballot measure by several decades. The histry of the movement of Hispanic voter registration toward the Democrats in California is not the history of one dramatic event; it was was a slow and steady process that paralleled the growth of Hispanic immigration from Mexico and Central America in the 80s and 90s. So, Reddy has it backwards. No Republican candidate for President since Eisenhower has received a majorioty of Hispanic votes,nor will that ever happen until Hispanic Americans move up the economic latter and begin to view government taxes as a burden as much as a boon.
If demography is not destiny, and it may be, certainly culture is destiny. Tragically, the immigrants from Latin America fled the political systems that their culture supported there and that culture continues to support socialism now that they are here.
Asian-Americans tend to have cultures that favor prospering in a capitalist society, but they have been successfully convinced that the Republicans are racist, a view that the media either believe or simply promulgate to further leftist policies.
Whatever happened to the idea of America as one people, united in fidelity to the Constitution and the founding principles of equal justice and liberty for all? I find this incessant focus on identity politics absolutely repulsive. It is ultimately destructive, already tearing our nation apart, and all the “smart” people want more of it! No thank you. If the Republicans choose to join the Divideocrats in this toxic strategy of division and pandering to buy votes, it will backfire on them. They will lose more votes than they mistakenly think they will gain, and I will be one of them.
it’s called multiculturalism. we are no longer “we the people” but individual tribes. brought to you by all politicians, all media (even pj media) and pundits
On the positive side, the are many hard working Latino small business owners here in North Texas. Many seem to live in a gray-market cash economy where regulations are ignored and taxes are likely not paid. Maybe instead of going Galt, we could all go Mexican while we wait for dinosaur big government to collapse? Stay small. Live under the radar with limited paper trail. Ignore government absurdity as much as possible. Prepare to survive the collapse.
I haven’t seen a Ruben Navarrette column here lately.
Ruben was here, although he calls himself “La Raza” on this site…
Texas and Arizona redistricting easily took care of the Hispanics growing numbers. Also, what about Asians, they voted 75% for Obama, that’s more than the Hispanic numbers. And blacks voted 93% for Obama. The Republicans are not focusing on real inclusion and equality for all. They’re looking at schemes and strategies to get votes instead of winning hearts. They need to reach out to all people, blacks, asians, hispanics, immigrants, young people, women, in order to be viable in the future. Smoke and mirrors won’t work anymore, there are too many fact checkers and social media connections out there to be able to pull the wool over folks eyes anymore.