GOP has intentionally made itself into a white people's party

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http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120105/OPINION16/201050311/GOP-has-intentionally-made-itself-into-white-people-s-party?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CHome%7Cs

12:59 AM, Jan. 5, 2012

Watching television coverage of the Republican caucuses in Iowa, I noticed that nearly everybody was white: white people smiling over coffee, white people applauding at candidate forums, white people singing praise songs at church. True, Iowa has so few blacks that it would probably take a hawk's eye to spot one. But the GOP caucuses could have been held in any state, and the crowd would look the same.

White.

Which made me wonder: In a country as large and diverse as ours, how is it that one of the two major political parties has become, in essence, a white people's party?

Polls frequently note the overwhelming whiteness of the GOP, but they never quite explain it.

[Fumesucker]

1. Herman Cain disagrees..

[comipinko]

3. No, I don't think he does.

He's just OK with it.

[Fumesucker]

7. I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused..

At how many people want to pull up the ladder once they are safely up it, or think they are anyway.

[comipinko]

11. It's the american way!!!

or so it would seem.

[quinnox]

2. No wonder the Iowa racists in the GOP put Santorum over the top

They love it when he slams black folk. Keep it up Rick, let's see where it gets you.

[guitar man]

4. Illinois Nazis

I hate Illinois nazis

[Mosaic]

5. Grand?

A racist party is not grand. Stop calling them that. The damn tv still does, us enlightened folks know better.

[liberal N proud]

6. They have been a white men's club for decades

[justiceischeap]

8. Democratic Caucus Iowa

Ron Paul crowd


Santorum crowd
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Romney crowd

[Stuckinthebush]

9. While I agree that the GOP is the party of Caucasians...

Iowa is like 91% white so any gathering is going to be very white.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. They started out as an abolition party.

When they chose to court Southerners, they created their strange coalition of poor whites and big business. They've had to indoctrinate the business people with Evangelical mores and the poor whites with free-market capitalism, but they haven't been completely successful. That fractured alliance is their biggest weakness and is now being exhibited by the conflict between Romney and Santorum. The Paul supporters make up a different category, a modern version of the old John Birchers.