Demography and Democrats

For John, BLUF:  Will our all Democrat Delegation cause us long term problems on Capitol Hill?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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At the publication The National Interest is another look at Democrats and demographic changes in these United States, with charts.  The author is Mr Ronald Brownstein and the headline is "Demography Is Not Destiny for Democrats".  The sub-headline is "Redistricting and GOP dominance among white voters have offset the growing racial diversity that was supposed to give Democrats an unbeatable edge."

Growing racial diversity is transforming a lengthening list of congressional districts, but not providing as much political benefit to House Democrats as many in both parties expected only a few years ago, a Next America analysis has found.

Districts high in racial diversity remain the last redoubt for the House Democrats' depleted caucus:  As Next America has reported, almost exactly two-thirds of the 188 Democratic House members in the new Congress represent districts where minorities exceed their national share of the population, 37.6 percent.

But Democrats have clearly failed to squeeze all the possible advantage from growing diversity, particularly as Republicans have consolidated their hold over districts where whites are more plentiful than they are nationally.  While Democrats continue to dominate districts where minorities represent half or more of residents, the GOP remains doggedly competitive in seats where the minority population is either slightly above, or slightly below, its national average.  In fact, in the new Congress, Republicans will hold a majority of the seats in which minorities represent at least 30 percent and no more than 50 percent of the total population.

The tone of this report is against Republicans, but it suggests that the Democrat Party has not found a footing with a large segment of the US Population, except maybe here in Massachusetts.

The other thing is that, unlike what Representative Luis Gutiérrez told us during the debate on the Department of Homeland Security Bill on the House Floor, not every immigrant is in favor of open or semi-open borders, or even ratification of all those who have entered this nation as illegal immigrants.  Those who did it the regular way are not in favor of letting someone come in illegally and then giving them an easy pass to residency, if not citizenship.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff