… By and large, the GOP is made up of the white, married middle class. The Democrats, on the other hand, are a demographic hodge-podge. And one group that is less and less important to the Democrats is white men. …
It is now regularly averred that the “browning” of America is going to remake the body politic. Maybe so, but first it will remake the Democratic party. Indeed, at the grassroots level, it already has. Federally mandated majority-minority districts guarantee a strong non-white presence in the House. The political order in major cities has also shifted. …
But the changes have not worked their way through the upper echelons of the party, where presidential candidates typically come from. CONT.
Jay Cost, Weekly Standard