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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for your very thoughtful tone but I think you are mistaken that there is some kind of inevitable leftward shift in the country due to demographics.  I think that the Latino community would have been a natural constituency for the Republican Party and can still be one.  Family values? Hard work? Freedom for small businesses from regulation? Protection for religious values? Encouraging individual initiative? These all could appeal deeply to Latino voters but instead the Republican Party paid obeisance to short-sighted white anxiety about immigration that bordered on xenophobia.  The Republicans could still shift course and become relevant but they have to start thinking about the future and embracing it rather than longing for some unattainable past that never really existed in that form to begin with.

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I have seen no reason to believe that this is anything other than wishful thinking.  [/quote]
Then George W. Bush (and his brother Jeb) were engaging in wishful thinking.  They were both successful in winning the Latino vote (check the data) and Bush was on his way to solidifying it through comprehensive immigration reform.  Guess who scuttled that.  [/quote]

(Dem here)  Look, the republicans just need to tone down the nastiness pointed at particular groups. Bill Clinton reformed welfare not by pointing fingers and shouting about "welfare queens" but by saying soft, nice things about those on assistance and then making pointed REFORMS at the same time. And the poor still voted for him. Stop attacking "the illegals" and start focusing on those small business and anti-regulations reforms that are right in your wheelhouse. Doesn't mean you can't reform immigration law at the same time...[/quote]

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