No way out’: Demographics drive GOP nosedive on West Coast

[truth_seeker]

No way out’: Demographics drive GOP nosedive on West Coast

By ANDREW SELSKY

https://apnews.com/fdae5034e371a6dd012a60d17f5bb635

BEND, Ore. (AP) — In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill operated along the banks of the Deschutes River in Oregon’s high-desert country.
Today, the lumber mill is an REI outdoor recreation store. The population has quadrupled. And for the first time in memory, the number of registered Democrats in Deschutes County recently eclipsed the number of Republicans.
The transformation shows how demographic shifts and the GOP’s tack further to the right are helping push the party into a nosedive along the West Coast.

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[skeeter]

We’re supposed to look the other way while the world changes from under our feet.

Don’t want to be tagged with that scarlet R.

[Fishrrman]

Tell me about it, skeeter.
I've been trying to raise the issue for years.
But... say the wrong thing -- not an "untruth" but something that doesn't fit the narrative -- and you in a heap o' trouble, boy...

[TomSea]

The bad thing, is we already have examples of this happening; and therefore, every other state in the US needs to be careful and cautious.

[TomSea]

Trump on pace for record Hispanic vote

 By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:37 a.m. on Thursday, February 27, 2020

He was told being strict on illegal immigration would doom him among Hispanic voters.

Yet President Trump has defied their predictions, from the moment he delivered his iconic address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013 — warning the Republican Party that legalizing 11 million illegal immigrants was political suicide — through the 2016 presidential election and into the White House.

Now nine months out from his second Election Day, and despite a tenure in the White House that has involved building a border wall, stepping up deportations and insulting some Latin American nations as “s—hole” countries, Mr. Trump is as strong as ever among Hispanic voters, according to the polls.

Read more at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/26/donald-trump-wins-over-hispanics-despite-strict-im/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push

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