“Perhaps. It also seems like Dem pandering to them might be driving more Whites and even some Blacks to vote Republican.”
I wonder how many times THAT particular fantasy has to be shot down before ‘republicans’ wise up!
I’m not sure how much of a fantasy that is. The movement of young black males towards the GOP is well documented. There have been a number of articles posted recently about how the Dems increasingly have a white voter problem.
So the trending is there. Also with the general youth vote starting to pull away from Dems (Obama dropped something like 8 points there between 2008 and 2012). The questions are whether it’s happenening with enough speed and depth to offset the increases in other areas that the Dems are benefitting from.