{"id":1734790,"date":"2022-11-11T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734790"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:17:31","slug":"democrats-who-were-counting-on-demographics-being-destiny-had-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-who-were-counting-on-demographics-being-destiny-had-it-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Who Were Counting On Demographics Being Destiny Had It All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-who-were-counting-on-demographics-being-destiny-had-it-all-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734790&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrats have long argued that \u201cdemographics are destiny,\u201d meaning that the nation\u2019s growing minority and immigrant population will ensure the Democrat Party\u2019s long-term political dominance in America. But Hispanic voters in Florida delivered a powerful rebuttal to such an assertion, solidifying Florida\u2019s transformation into a red state Tuesday night by helping reelect Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio by landslide margins. For those who have paid attention, Hispanic voters\u2019 shift to the political right is not a one-time outlier but has been part of a decade-long trend.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/data\/tables\/2017\/demo\/popproj\/2017-summary-tables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">predicted<\/a>\u00a0that by 2050, Asians, Hispanics, Africans, and other minorities would make up most of the population. Democrats were convinced that such a demographic trend would cement their political destiny because their party had the monopoly of minority votes. In his book,\u00a0\u201c40 More Years: How Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation,\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>Democratic strategist James Carville declared that America\u2019s demographic trend would keep Republicans out of power and Democrats in control for years to come.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Obama\u2019s two presidential election victories seemed to affirm the Democrats\u2019 \u201cdemographics are destiny\u201d assertion. Obama won his first presidential election in 2008 by winning a combined\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/08\/obama-needs-80-of-minority-vote-to-win-2012-presidential-election\/428601\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80 percent<\/a>\u00a0of minority votes. For his reelection in 2012, Obama captured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ABC_Univision\/Politics\/voting-groups-helped-obama-win\/story?id=17665898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">93 percent of African American votes, 71 percent of Hispanic votes<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/will-asian-americans-trend-conservative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">71 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Asian American votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minority voters also went to bat for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. About 79 percent of Asian American voters, 88 percent of African Americans, and 66 percent of Latinos supported Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, the Democrat Party\u2019s hold on minority voters has waned, owing mainly to the party\u2019s ideological shift and taking extreme positions on social and cultural issues. Ideologically, socialist talking heads such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have become dominant voices in the Democratic Party and pulled it further left. Hispanic and Asian voters who lived or had family members who lived under socialistic regimes were alarmed by the Democratic Party\u2019s lurch into socialism.<\/p>\n<p>On social and cultural issues, many found the Democratic Party\u2019s emphasis on skin color over meritocracy, and equal outcome over equal opportunity, un-American and divisive. Those socially conservative minorities have also become uncomfortable with Democrats\u2019 extreme positions on cultural issues, such as no-restriction, on-demand abortion, teaching sexually explicit materials to children, and indoctrinating them with critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>As the Democrat Party moved to the far-left, minority voters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/23\/1113166779\/hispanic-and-minority-voters-are-increasingly-shifting-to-the-republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shifted to the right<\/a>. While Democrats\u2019 policies and extreme positions turned them off, minorities appreciated Trump\u2019s pro-growth economic policies, which resulted in a booming economy and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/dont-look-now-but-minority-unemployment-is-at-record-lows-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-time lows<\/a>\u00a0in unemployment rates during Trump\u2019s first term. A flourishing economy and Trump\u2019s willingness to fight back against cultural issues enabled him to make in-roads with minority voters in the 2020 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polls\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/trump-got-10-million-more-votes-than-in-2016_531289.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a>\u00a0Trump won 19 percent of black men\u2019s votes, a 6 percent increase from 2016. About 34 percent of Asian Americans voted for Trump, a 7 percent increase from 2016. Trump\u2019s performance among Hispanic voters was the most exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, leftists insisted that minorities were the key to keeping Democrats in power. 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