The results of the 2010 Census have some good news for Democrats and bad news for the right wing of the GOP. Hispanics Reach 50 million Milestone It's no surprise that the Latino/Hispanic population has been growing in almost every corner of the US threatening long held Republican strongholds like Arizona and Texas. Some Republicans are starting to wake up to this fact. The news that Latinos now comprise 16% of of Arizona's population along with business concerns about economic damage from boycotts derailed a raft of anti-immigration proposals in the Arizona legislature.
The Latino vote has already had an impact on an even more vital stronghold of the GOP, the Solid South where a new opportunity has emerged for Democrats.
Latino voters accounted for Obama's 2008 victory margin in North Carolina and contributed mightily to his wins in Virginia and Florida. Now comes news that another Democrat-friendly demographic is growing in the Deep South as African-Americans from Northern cities head south, growing the Southern Black population for the first time in decades. NYT Many U.S. Blacks moving to South
Democrats must not take it for granted that these groups will be in our corner but begin to strategize about how to increase voter registration and participation by both Latino and Black voters. The opportunity exists to make the entire country as Democratic as the short-sighted divisive Republican tactics have made California (once a swing state from which prominent Republicans launched their White House careers).