Republicans Pave Way to All-White Future

[kpete]

....."Secure the border" is an empty slogan and practical nightmare. But if you're a conservative politician desperate to assuage (or exploit) what writer Steve Chapman calls the "deep anxieties" stirred by "brown migrants sneaking over from Mexico," it's an empty slogan with legs. It will be vastly easier for Republicans running in 2016 to shout "secure the border" than to defy the always anxious, politically-empowered Republican base. Perhaps Republicans in Congress will muster some form of Dream Act for immigrant youth or a visa sop to the tech industry, but they seem incapable of more.

In that case, the path of least resistance -- and it has been many years since national Republicans have taken a different route -- will be to continue reassuring the base while alienating brown voters. (After six years in which Republicans' highest priority has been destruction of the nation's first black president, it's doubtful black voters will be persuadable anytime soon.) The party's whole diversity gambit goes out the window. The White Album plays in perpetuity on Republican turntables.


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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-16/republicans-pave-way-to-allwhite-future

[LiberalElite]

1. I do wish the writer

hadn't used "The White Album" to make a point.

[gordianot]

2. As long as voter apathy exisists a little voter supression goes a long way.

While the money rolls in there will be a Republican Party.

[HockeyMom]

3. We don't have ONE border

We have TWO borders. Read between the lines of what they say. Do they care about securing that other border from Canadians???????? When did the USA annex Canada?

It is Mexico with brown people they hate, not Canada with white people.