Minorities Threat GOP

«Republican problems outside the South are compounded by and related to the increasing proportion of minorities in the electorate. Brownstein notes that in the 1990s immigration stopped being only a regional phenomenon. Today minorities are at least 30 percent of the population in 205 House districts, almost double the number in 1990. And in 135 districts—31 percent of the 435—minorities are at least 40 percent of the population. In California and Texas, non-Hispanic whites are just 63 percent of the population.

And the future? Demography often is political destiny, and 47 percent of children under 5 are minorities. Hispanics are the largest and fastest-growing minority.»

George Will, Newsweek, 12-II-2010