Posted on 03/27/2013 6:55:35 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
The Republican National Committee has produced an “autopsy” on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.
Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.
First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater’s defeat had left Republicans with just a third of the House and Senate.
In 1966, Nixon led the GOP back to a stunning victory, picking up 47 House seats. In 1968, he united the Rockefeller and Reagan wings and held off an October surge by Hubert Humphrey, which cut a 13-point Nixon lead to less than a point in four weeks.
In 1972, Nixon swept 49 states. The New Majority was born. How did he do it?
Nixon sliced off from FDR’s New Deal coalition Northern Catholics and ethnics — Irish, Italians, Poles, East Europeans — and Southern Christian conservatives. Where FDR and Woodrow Wilson had won all 11 Southern States six times, Nixon swept them all in ’72. And where Nixon won only 22 percent of the Catholic vote against JFK, he won 55 percent against George McGovern in 1972.
What killed the New Majority?
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
The Old Majority is the new minority. Demographic analysis shows that the white, heterosexual, Christian sector of society has seen a steady decline in numbers for some time. Political upheaval is a natural (and predictable) outcome of this. In recent decades white, Christian families stopped having children in the same proportion as their parents, grandparents, etc. This was done out of a false belief that fewer children translated into uninterrupted prosperity sustainable for generations to come. Nothing was further from the truth.
they are all a bunch of aging hippies and pretty pathetic
herbert walker was a huge dissappointment
read my lips no new taxes, what a buffoon
I agree.
Media partisanship (complicity), voter apathy, and systematic voter fraud have greatly damaged our system.
An amoral (secular) society tolerates such offenses. The America of our youth, with widespread adherence to Judeo-Christian values at a personal level, would require accountability for such actions.
Good points.
Every year 2.5 million (mostly old, white, majority R voting) people die and are replaced by (mostly minority, heavily D voting) folks.
It definitely makes things an uphill climb.
Yep, the whole family is big disappointment to me in fact...
why
oh you mean the whole Bush family, yeah I totally agree, very disappointing, although I still like W some
National Review gives the 1968 election as 33% of Catholics voting republican, and in 1972 52% voting republican, which was the same as the 52% of the under 30 vote which voted for Nixon.
1972 appears to be the first time in history that the republicans won a majority of the Catholic vote, Reagan then won it twice and his veep once, and George W won 52% for wartime reelection in 2004.
Things seem to have returned to normal with Clinton, Clinton, Al Gore, Obama, and Obama all having won the Catholic voters, the Catholic vote has probably returned to it's permanent historical place.
George H.W. Bush
Yes, and for CIA commander Poppy "New World Order" Bush, it was no accident.
Everybody voted for LBJ and he won in a massive landslide, it wasn't just blacks.
LBJ did something that only one other democrat candidate has ever done in America, he won the Protestant vote.
You described my Grandparents and my parents to a “T”.
Think about it. When the USA’s largest demographic group of white/Christian/heterosexuals (who possess a long-held, cherished set of beliefs in morality, staunch work ethic, property rights, rule of law, limited government, national sovreignty, secure borders, etc.) is slowly edged out by a coalition of demographic groups with a different makeup and a different set of moral codes (in some cases radically so), you have the recipe for a seismic shift in the foundations of societal, governmental and economic systems, not just a mere replacement elected officials. The same electorate that made a president out of BHO (2X) is the same society that will tolerate (and advocate for) further injury to the former majority group out of a sense of righteous indignation in order to achieve ‘social justice’. In reality it is just the same old motivations that have plagued mankind throughout history: greed, revenge, lust, and racial hatred.
But the same success and benefits that the current coalition of demographic ‘in-groups’ now enjoy will be short-lived. The problems inherent within these groups will, with a certainty, be their demise as well. Homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce. Socialists inevitably feed on their own, destroying any hope of having a productive tax base. Historically, anti-Christianism ultimately works against itself and, over time, will actually ADD to the numbers of Christianity.
And the Earth shall continue to turn and the cycle shall begin anew. It just might take a hundred years (+ or -).
In 1964 LBJ got 43 million and Goldwater received 27 million.
By 1968, though, Humphrey was back in JFK territory with just 31 million. Nixon was also back there with 32 million!
George Wallace had 10 million.
Notice, there were 73 million total voters in 1968, and 71 million total in 1964.
Presumably new black Democrat voters went with the Democrats in 1968, as well as in 1964! LBJ had swapped a large faction ~ "to wit: black voters" entirely to the Democrats. They would later go on to prove they were a power to be respected since they were usually 40% to 60% of the effective voting strength in the Democrat ranks in cities and states where they clustered.
Ain't a bad showing for a group that's only 13% of the population.
The Wallace vote demonstrated to Nixon that there were votes to be earned in the Souf'.
Out of a total 1972 vote of 76 million, Nixon got 47 million.
A close examination of the numbers will reveal that Goldwater's totals weren't all that out of line with the Republican trendline, but LBJ's certainly were thanks to the new registration of millions of black voters pursuant to the 1963 voting rights act ~ and their movement to the Democrat column.
Always remember, until 1964 the total number of black voters was far below their numbers in the population. The voting rights act eliminated barriers, massive registration took place and LBJ got them to the polls as he promised. Goldwater was a supporter of the voting rights act. He was not a supporter of the various EIEIO acts that followed and LBJ beat him like an old rug on that score.
Nixon's lopsided win over the Hapless George McGovern remains forever associated in our minds with the Chicago riots, but any analysis of votes suggests we would be better advised to think of it in terms of Southerners moving permanently to the Republican column. Again, that's a major move of a major facton ~ long predicted to happen by political scientists everywhere in the world but adroitly held back by master political theorists guiding Democrat campaigners ~ up until 1968!
Excellent post.
I really doubt in my lifetime (20 yrs?) we’ll see anything but Democrat presidents, unless we can somehow pull off a plurality win with somebody like Bloomberg screwing the Dems via a 3rd party run.
Change their values?
Man, what a load of gibberish and confused rambling.
What were you trying to say?
The black vote shifted to LBJ and the Democrats simply because LBJ promised to pass another future civil rights law just as good as the Voting Rights Act ~
For black voters it's like Goldwater wasn't even running.
I’m sorry you are unable to retain the thread of an analysis long enough to understand what you are looking at.
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