When presented with data about changing US demographics, even liberal whites will move right

[Cali_Democrat]

This is a fascinating NY Times article. You gotta read the whole thing.

Here's a snip:

The Great White Hope
MAY 20, 2014


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Craig and Richeson’s second study, “On the Precipice of a ‘Majority-Minority’ America,” published last month, is even more directly relevant to the strategic choices facing Republicans. The authors found that whites – whether they called themselves liberals, centrists or conservatives — all moved to the right when exposed to the information about the approaching minority status of whites. This “suggests that the increasing diversity of the nation may engender a widening partisan divide,” Craig and Richeson write.

These findings led the two authors to observe that the future of the contemporary Republican Party may not be as bleak as some say. “Whites may be increasingly likely and motivated to support conservative candidates and policies in response to the changing racial demographics,” they write. “These results suggest that presumptions of the decline of the Republican Party due to the very same changing racial demographics may be premature.”

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P.R.R.I. initially asked respondents a direct question: did they agree or disagree with the statement, “The idea of an America where most people are not white bothers me.” As you might expect, agreement was low, with just 13 percent saying they were bothered by the prospect of a majority-minority America. Then P.R.R.I. used a separate indirect technique to try to determine how many respondents were in fact disturbed by the growth of the minority population, but unwilling to admit it.

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White Democrats, at 11 percent, were more circumspect than white Republicans, at 18 percent, when explicitly asked if they were bothered (see Figure 1). But the indirect response technique revealed another interesting fault line: The list experiment showed that a slightly higher percentage of white Democrats, 33 percent (compared to 30 percent of white Republicans), are bothered by the United States becoming a white minority nation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/opinion/edsall-the-great-white-hope.html?hp&rref=opinion

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Posted to for later reading.

[randys1]

2. I surely believe whites react poorly to the truth and the eventual outcome

Regardless of whether they are left or right but I cant believe more liberal whites react poorly than conservative whites, ALL conservative whites are pissed that they are losing their majority status from what I can see.

Doesnt matter, what matters is I know I am in the minority of white people when I say it is about time.