What would it have realistically taken for the US Republican Party to become more popular among US racial and ethnic minorities? I know that a large part of the reason as to why exactly a sizable number of Republicans and conservatives here in the US oppose the Great Replacement is due to their fear that its success would mean permanent Democratic and liberal political dominance here in the US. So, how exactly do we change this reality?
AHC/WI: The US Republican Party becomes more popular among US racial and ethnic minorities
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@History Learner What are your own thoughts on this?
I know that blacks voted Republican until the Great Depression, when they began voting Democratic due to the benefits that FDR's New Deal provided for them. Still, the size of the Republican black minority might have been larger until the Civil Rights Era or so, when it likely fell to the current 10% level.
I know that blacks voted Republican until the Great Depression, when they began voting Democratic due to the benefits that FDR's New Deal provided for them. Still, the size of the Republican black minority might have been larger until the Civil Rights Era or so, when it likely fell to the current 10% level.
The Republican Party is in the process of purging the NeoCon element that has plauged the party with ineptitude and back stabbing in favor of 'the establishment' and war mongering. In its place is a more American first populism, pro-peace and pro freedom agenda with a highlight on kitchen table issues. This has made the party much more popular across a broad line beyond just ethnic. And so long as Republicans as a whole hold too it they'll dominate for the next several decades. But purging NeoCons is going to be a fairly slow endeavor. And right now the populace right has their sights set on the big ones Luke Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. People have just had it with them and their constant backstabbing and spinelessness.
I've actually heard speculation that one way for the GOP to try getting more Hispanic support might be for them to play the race card and specifically by highlighting the Democrats' weakness in responding to largely black crime. But of course this speculation came from VDARE.com, so you yourself might be tempted to dismiss it.
NeoCons tried that. It failed so badly it made the Republican Party a laughing stock. It wasn't genuine but plain pandering and people called it out for what it was. It was also a very cynical approach and played into the Democrats narrative hook, line and sinker.
Now, Hispanics are joining the Republican Party in record numbers and leaving the Democrats. All because Republicans are addressing issues they want. And that's a good thing. The Republican Party is finally returning to the party of the people as it always should have been.
AFAIK, Bush's Hispandering primarily consisted of things like immigration reform and affordable housing (such as putting pressure on lenders to give mortages to people who otherwise wouldn't qualify for them due to low income, bad credit histories, and/or et cetera).
Bush was a moron. And that Dude spent money like it was going out of style. He's a large part of why the dept is as bad as it is.
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History Learner
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I once saw this thread about getting the Black vote 20-30% Republican with a PoD in the 1990s. I also have that entire scenario planned out for getting the Hispanic vote to go GOP via the annexation of Mexico.
The GOP could perhaps gain some extra black support if the Democrats are being perceived as being too soft on legitimate crime enforcement in black neighborhoods, considering that it's worth noting that a lot of victims of black crime are other, sometimes more law-abiding, blacks.
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Maybe have Reconstruction succeed & white supremacy remain in shambles in at least a few of the post-ACW Southern states? Say the black majority ones - South Carolina and Mississippi, IIRC, both of which also contributed several of the first ever black congressmen (all Republicans) - manage to beat back the rising tide of the Redeemers. That way the GOP's biracial, anti-segregationist 'black and tan' clique has a permanent base and never loses out to their 'lily-white' rivals, while also giving blacks a few sanctuaries to accumulate generational wealth (and invest said wealth in ever more prosperous businesses, higher-quality education, etc.) without being harassed or outright attacked by envious and easily-angered white supremacist mobs.
Having Booker T. Washington's 'Tuskegee Machine' endure long after his death, which would dovetail nicely with the nurturing of a robust black middle & upper class in the aforementioned sanctuaries, at the expense of the NAACP and W.E.B. DuBois' ideas would also help greatly.
For Hispanics and Asians, I think you'd have to make the Republican Party both keep their early protectionist streak and also become much more economically populist throughout history - more inclined to align with Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal - which I doubt will be easy considering that the Democrats usually had that aspect cornered (until recent decades, anyway) while the Republicans historically developed laissez-faire tendencies and a reputation as the 'party of business'. A more economically populistic & interventionist GOP could alleviate the conditions which led to the Democratic Party's 'revolution' in Hawaii in 1954 and keep Asians there on-board, for example.
Having Booker T. Washington's 'Tuskegee Machine' endure long after his death, which would dovetail nicely with the nurturing of a robust black middle & upper class in the aforementioned sanctuaries, at the expense of the NAACP and W.E.B. DuBois' ideas would also help greatly.
For Hispanics and Asians, I think you'd have to make the Republican Party both keep their early protectionist streak and also become much more economically populist throughout history - more inclined to align with Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal - which I doubt will be easy considering that the Democrats usually had that aspect cornered (until recent decades, anyway) while the Republicans historically developed laissez-faire tendencies and a reputation as the 'party of business'. A more economically populistic & interventionist GOP could alleviate the conditions which led to the Democratic Party's 'revolution' in Hawaii in 1954 and keep Asians there on-board, for example.