House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who conferred with President Barack Obama yesterday by phone, walks to a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
?Toto, I?ve a feeling we?re not in Kansas anymore.?
Just as Dorothy knew something had changed, many now feel the same about this nation?s new demographics. It took the November election for politicians and others to realize that the face of the United States has changed. According to Paul Taylor of the Pew Institute, ?We are mid-passage in a century-long journey from the middle of the last century, when we were nearly a 90 percent white nation, to the middle of this coming century, when we will be a majority-minority nation.?
New and young Hispanic voters were the difference that cost Mitt Romney and the Republican Party electoral majorities in as many as half a dozen states. The GOP enters the new year searching and wondering why so much of the non-white, especially the Latino vote, was lost. The party?s consultants led them to believe that Latinos were more aligned with their definition of family and being pro-life.
Latinos are more than that. They are compassionate, care for the downtrodden and about justice. They are proud. They want what all parents want ? an education for their children that will let their daughters and sons have a better life than they have.
Now more Republican politicians are taking a second look at our outdated immigration policies in order to gain support of Latinos for the next election. However, that alone may appear condescending. To gain the Latino vote in 2014 and beyond, the rhetoric will have to change. Public policies should be created with
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