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Those same demographics (i.e., Hispanics now being 40% of Texans and Hispanics plus blacks now a clear majority of Texans) were supposed to make Texas competitive in 2014. Instead the Democrats LOST EVERY STATEWIDE RACE by 20 points.

The problem for the Democrats was that they managed to unify the white vote with their extreme liberalism (about 75% of whites voted Republican) and barely managed to win a majority of the Hispanic vote (Dems got about 56% of it). Only blacks came through for the Dems, and there are not enough of them here to carry the election.

It’s also worth noting that the Republicans DID NOTHING to pander to the Hispanics - they ran the most conservative ticket that they ever ran...yet almost split that vote.

In other southern states, particularly Alabama, whites voted in even higher numbers for Republicans (up to 89%).

All of the “Demographic Theories” pertaining to the demise of the Republican Party, and conservatives in general, assume that the white vote will continue to split relatively evenly. Those days are certainly gone in South, which is why it is now solid red, even given the millions of new Hispanics - and the REAL FEAR that the Democrats have is that some Republican candidate will not listen to the Republican ‘advisers’ (most of them gay, by the way) and will start to unify the white vote outside of the South.

Trump may just do that, given his stance on Open Borders.

In response to your replies and for the record, I would like to say that I am on record here for some time as exhorting the Republican candidates to pick up the issue of immigration and jobs to win over the Reagan lunchpail Democrats and hopefully elect Republican presidents for a generation. I have advocated this long before Donald Trump began his campaign. So far, Scott Walker is making that argument to some degree and even Ted Cruz but no Republican candidate has served it up with the punch with which Donald Trump has delivered the message.

Donald Trump has the right message but he is the wrong messenger.

I am afraid the days of Nixon's Southern strategy are long past. Even at the risk of echoing the execrable Karl Rove, I must say that the election will be won or lost as it has been won or lost for the last several cycles, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri and a few other states. The problem for us with a Southern strategy is that we cannot rely on the South because the South is not solid. North Carolina and Virginia have demonstrated beyond doubt that the South is no longer solid.The election can be lost in the southern states as it was with Obama but it cannot be won.

My God, Mosby's Confederacy (Loudoun County Virginia and the immediate surrounding area) voted for Obama twice! This is Hunt Country Virginia for heaven sakes and we lost it. Never mind the counties like Fairfax next to Washington DC with the influx of Asians, we lost hunt country. If we cannot hold wealthy suburban counties in a Southern state, we are lost.

Hopefull, those deficiencies can be remedied with a strong conservative candidate with a clear conservative message. He must also have attributes of character which the Republican middle class will accept and I do not believe The Donald has those attributes. Remember, it is suburban women who will swing that geographical area of the vote, they read women's magazines, they watch Oprah, they get their information from sources you and I cannot believe or even find and as a result they tend to vote Democrat if they are single.What appeal does The Loudmouth Donald have for fans of Oprah?

I believe this is the last national election in which conservatism has a chance to prevail unless the tsunami of illegal immigration is halted and even reversed and unless the illegal voting generated by the Democrats with these illegal immigrants is halted. I see no real chance of that occurring unless there is a staunch conservative in the White House beginning in January 2017. It is clear beyond doubt that no Bush will ever act to stop illegal voting. If legal immigration, not just illegal immigration, is not halted we will not have another conservative president in our lifetimes. We are already at a point in which babies of color are being born at a rate exceeding Caucasian babies. So long as the Democrats succeed in making race the primary issue in America (more important to blacks than jobs, immigration more important to Hispanics than jobs) the game for us is over.

Those who count themselves conservatives but who oppose article 5 ought to reflect on these realities before it is too late.