In 2002 Patrick Buchanan wrote “The Death of the West

In 2002 Patrick Buchanan wrote "The Death of the West." In it he wrote:

 

for a quarter century (1968-1992) Democrats were unable to pick the GOP lock on the presidency, because they could not shake loose the Republican grip on the white vote. With the exception of Johnson in 1964 and Truman in 1948 no Democrat won the white vote. What broke the GOP lock on the presidency was the Immigration Act of 1965.

 

During the years 1970 through 2000 we imported a new electorate, as Republicans cheerfully backed an immigration policy tilted to the Third World that enlarged the Democratic base and loosened the grip that Nixon and Reagan had given them on the presidency of the United States.

 

In 1996, the GOP was rewarded. Six of the 7 states with the largest numbers of immigrants---California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas---went to Clinton. In 2000 5 went to Gore, and Florida was a dead heat. Of the 15 states with the most foreign-born, Bush lost 10. But of the 10 states with the smallest shares of foreign-born, Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas---Bush swept all 10.

 

Among the states with the most immigrants, only Texas has been reliably Republican but now is going the way of California.  In the 1990s, Texas took in 3.2 million new residents as the Hispanic share of Texas's population shot from 25 percent to 33 percent. The day when whites are a minority in Texas for the first time since before the Alamo is coming soon. In 2002 the Dallas Morning News thought that by 2005 fewer than half of Texans would be white.

 

In 1960 the U.S. population was 88.6 percent white; in 1990, it was 75.6 percent; by 2020 the proportion of whites could fall as low as 61 percent.  By 2050, Euro-Americans, the largest and most loyal share of the electorate the GOP has, will be a minority due to an immigration policy that is championed by Republicans.

 

The Republicans can ignore the Latinos no more.