Correction: Obama's father was a Kenyan, possibly a Kenyan muslim, possibly a fellow traveler of the Mau Maus. Whatever his fathers background. Obama's father abandoned him as an infant to be raised by his white mother.
The changing demographics of migration will hurt the democrats as the neighboring states are ALL heavy republican voting blocs. If they lose the heavy democratic stronghold of New Orleans, those who moved to say, Texas to vote, will not affect that state's heavy republican votes. This is the real panic behind the democtratic rhetoric...They simply cannot afford to lose 300,000 black votes!