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Brain -> Latino-Bashing: GOP Flirting With Permanent Minority Status (8/15/2010 8:06:00 PM)
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Flirting? I'd say they're well past 3rd base at this point. I'm still trying to figure out where they think they're going to get all these non-white voters (like those who supported them when Bush was in office) for their repeat of the Gingrich revolution. Or maybe they're fantasizing that blacks AND Hispanics will stay home in November; big mistake.
Latino-Bashing: GOP Flirting With Permanent Minority Status
The National Council of La Raza honored Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2007 for his work on immigration. "We are going to solve this [immigration] problem," Graham said that night. "We're not going to run people down. We're not going to scapegoat people. We're going to tell the bigots to shut up, and we're going to get this right."
Now, Graham talks about immigrant women giving birth in the United States as a "drop and leave" calculation -- as if describing animals. This is the surest sign yet that the Republican Party has written off the Latino community in the midterm elections.
It's your prerogative, Republican leaders, but let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, long, long ago, in the state of California, there lived a Republican governor who had abysmal approval ratings and was facing reelection. He, too, decided that Latino-bashing was his way out. And so he foisted Proposition 187 upon the land.
This Latino vote has already been credited with turning several red states blue, or at least purple. Yet, because of increasingly anti-Latino positioning, the Republican Party has been hemorrhaging Latino support since 2004. That was the high-water mark -- when President George W. Bush won 43 percent of the Latino vote.
http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Latino-Bashing--GOP-Flirting-With-Permanent-Minority-Status/211772?sms_ss=propeller
An anti-immigration protester yells at pro-immigration demonstrators in a Colorado rally
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