Quote Originally Posted by Mikeg View Post
I watched the video at your link and there is not one word in that report about the shifting demographics representing a "GOP problem".

Therefore, I have to assume that it was you who regurgitated that bit of dusty conventional wisdom [[aka Democratic Party "talking point"), which is based on the faulty assumptions that:

- past immigration trends continue into the future
- the Latino vote is monolithic, regardless of income levels and whether they are second or third generation Americans

The rate of growth of the Latino immigrant population in the USA peaked in the 1980s and the growth rate in the first decade of the 21st century was only one-eighth the peak rate. According to the Pew Research Center, in the past few years, immigration from Mexico has slowed to a crawl and is roughly equal to the out-migration back to Mexico, which is to say that the current net immigration rate is zero and is likely to stay that way as long as Mexico's recovery from the great recession outpaces the anemic recovery in the USA [[Mexico's GDP grew 3.9% in 2011 compared to a 1.7% GDP growth rate in the USA).

Many of those racial and ethnic minority babies discussed in that CNN report are second and third generation Americans. They will be better educated and will eventually become wealthier and more assimilated than their parents. This pattern has been evident over the past thirty years and it bodes ill for the Democrats, whose leadership knows that the Donks' disproportionate edge over the GOP with Latino and other minorities disappears as their income levels rise and more of them self-identify as being a non-hyphenated "American".
I agree with some of what you stated but one piece of information struck me as interesting. The net migration is zero yet the Repubs are gung ho on spending billions to build a wall along the border.

Seems pretty contradictory to me.