Cause, on 12 November 2018 - 12:41 PM, said:
This lead me to the US demographics page. Their is certainly an undercurrent of white nationalism and anti-immigration going at the polls in the US. The former is also going on in the US and Europe and the latter seemingly everywhere. The US is still 72% white but the US has a seemingly weird definition where anyone from Europe, north Africa and the middle east is white. Hispanics are also considered an ethnicity and not a race and so you can identify as white Hispanic or black Hispanic. 14% of the US is Hispanic. Apparently Hispanics will be the dominant ethnicity in the US by 2048. The US is famed as a melting pot but I never realized how strong that was. I can see why for those extreme white nationalists, white power, stormfront, Klu klux Klansmen this is such a big deal and I can now understand why the subtlety in the trump campaign is playing so well to such a big base, even the marginal are getting in on the act. I expect as the demographics continue to shift this will become a much bigger problem in America and a much more polarizing force. As the demographics continue to shift I wouldn't be surprised to see even mainstream candidates drop the pretense. It seems like an issue that needs to be addressed asap.
Its only an issue for racists. If the Dems run a candidate that gets their base going, the Republicans literally can't get enough votes to win, even today. It's why the Dem's biggest issue for president right now is they are going to try and run an old white person again.