If demographics is destiny, the Republican Party has a rendezvous with irrelevance — unless its policies change. This is the message some Republican leaders have been sending in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Senator Lindsey Graham recently told the Washington Post with characteristic bluntness. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

The numbers tell the tale. Minorities have accounted for 85 percent of the country’s population growth over the past decade, according to the US Census Bureau. A record 24 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, up 22 percent since 2008. Meanwhile, nearly 87 percent of registered Republican voters are white. And whites have declined as a portion of the electorate in every presidential election since 1992.

Originally posted by antonia
Well, I'll go a bit further here. I don't think it has much to do with GJ at all. The GOP will die a long, slow death much like Whigs did before them. Why? It's the Demographics. Whites are becoming a minority and most non-whites don't feel the GOP represents their interests.

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If demographics is destiny, the Republican Party has a rendezvous with irrelevance — unless its policies change. This is the message some Republican leaders have been sending in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Senator Lindsey Graham recently told the Washington Post with characteristic bluntness. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

The numbers tell the tale. Minorities have accounted for 85 percent of the country’s population growth over the past decade, according to the US Census Bureau. A record 24 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, up 22 percent since 2008. Meanwhile, nearly 87 percent of registered Republican voters are white. And whites have declined as a portion of the electorate in every presidential election since 1992.

The GOP doubles down every time it loses and this would be no different. They will move further to right. The Democrats only seem "leftist" in comparison to them. They have pushed out ever last visage of the old Rockefeller style Republican. The only place this dog is going to hunt is the deep south which has become solidly Republican. The rest of the states will become a serious problem in the next few years. Arizona will actually become a battleground state soon. Many of the house races are actually closer than they should be. The GOP's downfall began decades before this when they began to pander to southern racists after LBJ pushed them out of the party.

As for what the new party will be, I think it's too early to tell. The GOP will hang on for at least another decade but with increasing irrelevance as the population changes. The question is if the new "Right" will be the pretty much centrist Democratic party with an actual leftists party as the challenge or will the American tendency to conservatism produce a new right wing party?

edit on 6-11-2012 by antonia because: opps