[justiceseeker93]

Although there is no discussion of the political repercussions of the demographic changes described in the posted article, the take here is that Republicans stand to benefit overall, particularly in the redistricting of state legislatures and the US House which will largely take place this year. There will be less representation and less clout for predominantly black cities, typified by Detroit, which lost 25% of its population. Since blacks are addicted to the Democrats far more than any other racial/ethnic voting bloc, there will be an inevitable loss of overwhelmingly Democratic seats in general. (You can bet that if the New York Times thought the Democrats would be better off, they would have boasted about it in the story.)

Furthermore, the redistricting will be done by state legislatures which are now more Republican on the whole than they were in the last redistricting 10 years ago.

[cripplecreek]

Here in Michigan the GOP holds all the marbles and John Conyers district was the big loser.

[Eleutheria5]

Blacks might get quickly cured of their addiction in the South, because their love of Dems might be more based on living in blighted but densely populated coastal urban areas, than on the Dems’ questionable benefits to blacks per se. If you live in Detroit and there are no jobs, then food stamps, welfare, WIC, unemployment, rent subsidies, etc., are a lifeline, and you fear whites because you never meet any. If you live in Greensboro, NC, whites are your neighbors, their dialect is not dissimilar to your own, and it’s easier to start your own business, and thus resent high taxes. If you live in a rural area, gun control laws seem idiotic nuisances. If you live in Detroit, guns seem a dangerous menace, and you wish there was some way of getting rid of them. And so on and so forth.

[no dems]

Good; let them assimilate into those Red States and dilute their voting power because we all know that Blacks went for Obama 95%. Never could understand how they can go to church on Sunday; sing, clap, shout, dance and then go into a voting booth on Tuesday and vote for a man who espouses gay marriage and killing little babies.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!