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Politics and White Consciousness
An analysis of the 2014 elections.
The midterm election was the “revenge of the white male voter,” according to the professionally offended Amanda Marcotte of Slate. When it comes to the numbers, she’s right. Sixty-four percent of white men voted for Republicans; 34 percent voted for Democrats. Whites overall voted 60 percent for the GOP and whites made up 75 percent of voters, as opposed to 72 percent in 2012.
Despite the spectacle of black Republicans Mia Love and Tim Scott, and giggling from National Review about how the GOP is going to win over non-white voters, the Republican Party is actually growing more dependent on the white vote. This is what underlies the emerging liberal claim that the elections were somehow illegitimate because insufficient numbers of non-whites voted. However, even though the GOP won because of white voters, the Republicans’ share of the white vote is comparatively low to the margins won by Presidents Nixon and Reagan in 1972 (67 percent) and 1984 (64 percent).
If the Republican Party isn’t quite the “white party,” it’s certainly the party of the white majority. In the South, whites vote as a bloc for Republicans the same way blacks do all over the country. The most extreme example is Mississippi, where 89 percent of whites voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. This election, progressives were stunned to discover that the “war on women” failed to inspire white women to vote Democrat, leading journalists to charge that racist white women had “failed” females everywhere.
However, it’s worth asking why whites should vote for the Republican Party. After all, Republicans have hardly been defenders of white interests and were stopped from helping Barack Obama amnesty millions of illegal immigrants only because of outrage from their own base. Republicans are simply less awful than Democrats. ...
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