Those are the reasons the GOP is dying, if you believe Pat Buchanan.
Demographically, the GOP is a party of white Americans, who in 1972 were perhaps 90 percent of the national vote. Nixon and Reagan rolled up almost two-thirds of that vote in 1972 and 1984. But because of abortion and aging, the white vote is shrinking as a share of the national vote and the population.
The minorities that are growing most rapidly, Hispanics and Asians, cast 60 to 70 percent of their presidential votes for the Democratic Party. Black Americans vote 9-1 for national Democrats. In 2008, they went 30-1.
Put succinctly, the red pool of voters is aging, shrinking and dying, while the blue pool, fed by high immigration and a high birth rate among immigrants, is steadily expanding.
Philosophically, too, the country is turning away from the GOP creed of small government and low taxes. Why?
Nearly 90 percent of immigrants, legal and illegal, are Third World poor or working-class and believe in and rely on government for help with health and housing, education and welfare. Second, tax cuts have dropped nearly 40 percent of wage earners from the tax rolls.
If one pays no federal income tax but reaps a cornucopia of benefits, it makes no sense to vote for the party of less government.
Per 2008 exit polls, Obama won 52-46 among high income voters, those that make over $200,000 or more. Among those that make $100-200,000, the vote total was nearly split, with Obama taking 48 percent of the vote. That was flipped for those that make $75-100,000, with Obama winning that cohort 51-48.
Bottom line? Buchanan is full of shit, but could we expect anything less from a race- and class-baiting paleocon like him?
But he is right about one thing -- the GOP's intolerance has made it radioactive among non-Anglo demographics. And given the huge growth in minority population, mostly Latino but also African American and Asian, it will be difficult for the GOP to win as long as its Pat Buchanans continue to ply their wares.