The Census Bureau has finally released it 2020 report, and it's a report that has to be scaring Republicans. It showed that the white (non-hispanic) portion of the population dropped in all fifty states. And for the first time, the percentage of whites in the population dropped below the 60% mark. Whites now make up only 57.8% of the population.
The population grew by 7.4% -- the lowest since the Great Depression. And non of that growth was among whites. Non-white minorities made up all of the growth of the country.
Predictions are that in another 20-30 years, whites will be less than 50% of the population.
If you wondered why Republicans are trying to suppress voting (especially among minorities), this can give you a clue. They want to maintain white superiority in the government, because the policies they pursue advantage whites over everyone else.
Seeing the demographic change that is happening (and is unstoppable), the Republicans had a choice -- they could change their policies to be more inclusive of minorities, or they could try to make it much harder for those minorities to vote. They chose the latter.
The GOP leaders really had no choice. After letting the racists and white supremacists into the party, they lost control over them. Now the racists make up too large a share of the party, and they dictate the whites-only policies of the party.
Voter suppression is a last-ditch effort, and it's doomed to fail in the long run. But the racists controlling the GOP are not very bright people. They actually think they can preserve white privilege in our society. They are wrong.
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