For all sorts of reasons, the \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform\u201d\u2014i.e. amnesty\u2014on behalf of which Marco Rubio and a whole lot of other Republicans in Washington and \u201cthe conservative\u201d media have been advocating from the time of Barack Obama\u2019s reelection is a sham and a disaster.<\/p>\n
But these Republicans have convinced themselves that, given the ever growing Hispanic segment of the electorate, their party\u2019s survival depends upon it.<\/p>\n
Some of us have always suspected that the influence of Hispanics over our politics has been greatly exaggerated by those who want<\/i> for Hispanics to achieve more influence, or at least to be perceived as having done so.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the Census Bureau\u2019s recently released findings, we now know that we have been right all along.<\/p>\n
Exit polling data from last year\u2019s election revealing that Hispanics constitute 10 percent of the electorate was mistaken.\u00a0 In reality, Hispanics are slightly above 8 percent of the voting public. As writer Steve Sailer remarks: \u201cSo the standard story you\u2019ve been hearing in the MSM [\u201cMainstream Media\u201d] for almost seven months is indeed inflated by 19 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t Hispanics that propelled Obama to victory, but blacks. \u00a0In fact, even more blacks came out to support Obama in 2012 than did so in 2008.\u00a0 As Sailer says, \u201cblacks added another 10 percent to their vote total from 2008 to 2012.\u00a0 Nationally, 66.2 percent of eligible blacks voted compared to 64.1 percent of whites, 48.0 percent of Hispanics, and 47.3 percent of Asians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sailer continues: \u201cThe growth in black turnout was particularly concentrated among those over age 65.\u00a0 Also, black women traditionally vote at significantly higher rates than black men, and the black gender gap in turnout hit a new record in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is significant, for as Sailer observes, the phenomenon of elderly black women seeking \u201cto keep the White House black\u201d is not exactly \u201cthe wave of the future.\u201d\u00a0 At the very least, it certainly doesn\u2019t call for anything along the lines of \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, even the Hispanic vote doesn\u2019t call for this.\u00a0 All of the hype regarding the alleged Hispanicization of American politics aside, Hispanic voter turnout was actually down <\/i>in 2012.\u00a0 Sailer asserts: \u201cAmong Hispanics eligible to vote, gross numbers continued to rise\u2014but the rate of those taking the trouble to vote dropped from 49.9 to 48.0 percent.\u201d\u00a0 Furthermore: \u201cThe number of Hispanics who claimed to be eligible but didn\u2019t bother to get to the polls soared from 9.8 million to 12.1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n
Compared to many of his fellow partisans, to say nothing of his Democratic rival, Mitt Romney was a hard-liner on the immigration problem.\u00a0 Yet, pace those of Romney\u2019s critics who swore that this stance of his would cost him the election among Hispanics, the latter actually showed up at the polls in fewer numbers than before.<\/p>\n
Yet it isn\u2019t just the upsurge in blacks voting for Obama that accounted for Romney\u2019s defeat.\u00a0 Romney still could\u2019ve prevailed\u2014had the rate of white turnout not been at record lows.\u00a0 It is worth quoting at length Sailer\u2019s summary of the Census Bureau\u2019s findings:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn contrast to the fervent black effort to re-elect Obama, whites were strikingly unmotivated by Romney. The total white vote dropped from 100 million in 2008 to 98 million in 2012 (down 2 percent).\u00a0 Only 64.1 percent of eligible whites voted in 2012, down from 66.1 percent in 2008 and 67.2 percent in the recent high-water mark year of 2004.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year was \u201cthe first time in the history of the Census survey that whites were not the highest-ranking group in terms of their rate of voting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Census Bureau\u2019s findings suggest a few things.<\/p>\n
First, the relentless and rapid rise of Hispanic political power is a myth.<\/p>\n
Second, the idea that Republicans can capitalize on this power only by supporting amnesty is a myth.<\/p>\n
Third, in promoting these myths, the establishment media proves itself once again to be less than entirely trustworthy.<\/p>\n
Finally, if Republicans want to win more elections, they should worry less about engaging in self-defeating pandering to minorities and more about stopping the hemorrhaging of their ever-shrinking white base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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