“By my count, the voter ID states, for the 2012 election, were Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, South Dakota, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee, and New Hampshire.”
Connecticut also has voter ID (has had it for some time), and Obama won easily here.
It’s less about fraud than it is about changing voter demographics and preferences. A growing cohort of Euro-American voters (along with minority voters) shows little interest in voting for either conservatism or Republican candidates.
A prime example are the “ladyparts voters”, who broke for Obama to the tune of 68%. What conservative ideas are going to lure them to the fold?
There are no easy answers to the dilemma that conservatives and Republicans face in America.
The nation is now divided. The red states seem to be growing redder. Conversely, the blue states are growing bluer and more leftist.
For a comparable time in our nation’s history, think back to Reconstruction, when a radical group of politicians in Washington forcibly took control of the governments of the southern states, leaving the vanquished Southerners from having much say in their own governance.
Substitute conservatives in America today, in place of the ex-Rebels in the South in those old days. How to preserve their lives, their culture?
The only long-term solution I see might be for the red states to take preliminary steps towards the creation of an independent “coalition of states” to collectively resist the efforts to subjugate them by the federal government in Washington. Such steps must be trod carefully (doesn’t the Constitution proscribe compacts between the states?), but nevertheless, they MUST be taken, with an intent that if a national collapse comes, the red states can then assert their efforts together for the rebuilding. Kind of a “nation within a nation”, so to speak.
Call it the “invisible empi....” no, wait, scratch that.
How about “the invisible compact”?
I get your point, but for fairly obvious reasons that’s not an example I would like to pattern our movement after.
For one thing, they lost in the long run.
For another, their resistance for most of a century was based on systematic and often murderous violation of other Americans’ civil rights.