Obviously Republicans should want America to be white again, just as Dems want America to become brown. Everyone is vaguely aware of voting patterns, so let's talk about it explicitly.
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Republicans want a higher percentage of voters to vote for them. Dems want a higher percentage to vote for them. Each party could try to switch over marginal voters, but that's hard. Why not look at exit polls and shift the demographics instead?
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Here's what the exit polls say: Republicans get a majority of whites. Dems get a majority of all nonwhite groups. The Dem strategy is simple and obvious. They didn't fully realize their own strategy until about 8 years ago, but they know it now.
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Replying to @Dirk_Diggler757 @HbdNrx
Yeah you've got to realize they did this stuff openly for many decades, even imported foreigners to kill native-born Americans in the Civil War. They didn't conveniently forget that was a possibility in time to pass Hart Celler
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Replying to @FreeHeloRidesDC @Dirk_Diggler757
The way they talked about it was very different from the 80s through about 2008. Dems used to frequently claim to want better border control. In 2006 they voted for a better border fence. Obama, Hillary, and Bill all said things that would never fly today.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Dirk_Diggler757
The Dem party in the 90s had an anti-immigration, environmentalist, and anti-globalization wing. That didn't disappear until the Obama era
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Dirk_Diggler757
Anti-globalization I'll give you, but my assessment has always been that any recent Democratic expression of anti-immigration sentiment was always about electoral triangulation, not conviction
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E.g. they said they opposed illegal immigration because it was electorally unpalatable not to, not because they opposed it.
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The Sierra Club opposition to immigration was genuine, and it only changed post-2000
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Dirk_Diggler757
As a 1998 vintage shitlib I remember people considering the Sierra Club very regressive and embarrassing for that
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