Simple calculations reveal what the GOP has become and why reform will be hard

[Homeland Security]

Texas: Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama 57% to 42%. Barack Obama won 70% of the Latino vote, 70% of the Asian vote, and 95% of the black vote in Texas. Those were roughly 25%, 10%, and 5% of the electorate respectively. In order to get to 57%, that means that Mitt Romney had to win 80% of the white vote. And to win 80% of the white vote, that means that essentially every single Anglo outside of Travis County and the liberal enclaves in the other big cities had to vote Republican.

I don't believe for one second that all those white people are united by belief in a first-principles constitutional ideology. I believe they are united by being white people. That means that the GOP in Texas has for all intents and purposes become the White Party. The parties have exactly flipped since 1968.

This is why reform will be hard. These white people for the most part are only socializing with other white people. Everybody in their circle has the same opinions. This explains why as demographics change and the white population becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the population the Republican Party moves further to the right and gets more and more strident.

Attempts to reform and reach out to like-minded minorities would be incoherent. There can be no such thing as a "like-minded" minority because the unifying principle of the GOP in the South is no longer small government, or economic freedom, or traditional or conservative values. It is white nationalism.

[RandomGuy]

Texas: Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama 57% to 42%. Barack Obama won 70% of the Latino vote, 70% of the Asian vote, and 95% of the black vote in Texas. Those were roughly 25%, 10%, and 5% of the electorate respectively. In order to get to 57%, that means that Mitt Romney had to win 80% of the white vote. And to win 80% of the white vote, that means that essentially every single Anglo outside of Travis County and the liberal enclaves in the other big cities had to vote Republican.

I don't believe for one second that all those white people are united by belief in a first-principles constitutional ideology. I believe they are united by being white people. That means that the GOP in Texas has for all intents and purposes become the White Party. The parties have exactly flipped since 1968.

This is why reform will be hard. These white people for the most part are only socializing with other white people. Everybody in their circle has the same opinions. This explains why as demographics change and the white population becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the population the Republican Party moves further to the right and gets more and more strident.

Attempts to reform and reach out to like-minded minorities would be incoherent. There can be no such thing as a "like-minded" minority because the unifying principle of the GOP in the South is no longer small government, or economic freedom, or traditional or conservative values. It is white nationalism.

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As Maddow pointed out, the Repugs at state level, and dozens of states are single-party Repugs (gov + rep + senate and probably Repug prejudiced judges at all levels) took no lessons from Bishop Gecko getting killed outside of this white male racist "Christian" base, and are doubling down on anti-choice, voter suppression, anti-same sex marriage, anti-gay anything.

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War On Women Continues: Arkansas Lawmakers Seize Opportunity To Push Anti-Choice Legislation (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/27/1241931/war-on-women-arkansas/)

As the Associated Press reports (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Abortion-opponents-see-new-opportunity-in-Arkansas-4065201.php), abortion opponents in Arkansas are seizing a new opportunity to revisit their anti-choice agenda now that the election is over — even though their efforts failed during this past legislative session:
Fresh off an election where Republicans won control of the state House and Senate for the first time in 138 years, GOP lawmakers and anti-abortion groups are now focusing on a handful of bills they believe have a better chance. [...]

“I will say that basically any opportunity now is more than any opportunity than we had in the previous session,” said Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley.

Mayberry said he plans to reintroduce legislation next year that would ban abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on the disputed claim that a fetus can feel pain after that point. Mayberry’s bill was one of 10 anti-abortion measures that failed to clear the House Public Health Committee during last year’s session, and it’s one of three measures that Arkansas Right to Life says it plans to push for in the legislative session that begins Jan. 14.



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/27/1241931/war-on-women-arkansas/

So all those 100Ks of ladies per year in red-states, and we know they exist, can go get abortions in states where abortion is allowed.

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Former GOP Leaders in Florida Admit to Voter Suppression

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14740-former-gop-leaders-in-florida-admit-to-voter-suppression

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the other trick the Repug single-party states will do, already talked about in PA, is the make electoral votes allocated by proportion of vote per state rather than winner-take-all.

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Lone Republican Still Gunning for Romney Victory
One Idaho state lawmaker is still in denial over election results and would like to see states challenge the legitimacy of Obama’s reelection. Last week, Idaho State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll (R) amplified a debunked theory circulating Tea Party blogs, that claims Romney still has a chance to win if enough states refuse to participate in the Electoral College.

Nuxoll linked to the debunked idea in a tweet, afterward telling the Spokane Spokesman-Review “I don’t know if it’s realistic.” (http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/11/27/2360565/lawmaker-shares-last-chance-idea.html)

Even though Obama won 51 percent of the popular vote, by Nuxoll’s reasoning, “states are going to have to stand up for our individual rights and for our collective rights” because he is “depriving us of our freedoms.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lone-republican-still-gunning-romney-victory

tea baggers! freedom! liberty! paranoid fantasies! Bishop Gecko wins 330 electoral votes! :lol