Will gays and ethnic minorities ever vote Republican again, if the Tea Party continues to call the shots?

Ethnic minorities have historically been much less likely to vote than those of Western European descent. Each party reaches out to minorities because oftentimes, the party that gets a new person to register to vote will get his/her vote in the following election(s). After all, in the "sales pitch" to convince a person to register to vote, there is the strong opportunity to convince those persons to vote for your party's candidates.

Furthermore, people tend to be loyal to their first political party, and political party affiliation is very often passed on through families. Starting now reaching out to minorities will be good in the future. Yes, it is true that the Democrats have been better at getting the minority votes.

The Republicans cannot be complacent because (a) this would concede defeat in these arenas and (b) in 30-40 years a majority of Americans will be of Hispanic, African-American, and other minority descent. Long term strategy and common sense means that the survival of the party is at stake. What do the Republicans have to offer?

The Republicans would want to reach out to ethnic minorities because many such communities are socially more conservative than long established communities in the U.S. One such Republican community is the Miami-based Cuban exile community. The Republicans were the more vocal anti-Communists party (cf. Sen.

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin). Cubans have strong cultural ties to Roman Catholicism, a socially conservative religion, and the Republicans have allied themselves since the 1970s, and especially the 1980s, with religious conservatives. Pres.

Clinton angered the Cubans, too, with the Elian González affair in the 1990s, sending a child back to Cuba from Miami to live with his father, and that further drove a wedge between the Democrats and the Cuban community. Another example is Prop 8 in California in 2008. African-Americans turned out in droves to vote for now Pres.

Obama, but African-Americans' religiosity tends to be more "conservative" with respect to family values issues and their acceptance of homosexuality. That is, African-American churches often are Pentecostal and/or evangelical. Thus, Prop 8 was defeated in part by the same people who turned out to give California's electoral college votes to the Democratic candidate.

Furthermore, just because most African-Americans (or any other group) vote for one party now does not mean it will always be so. It used to be African-Americans were overwhelmingly Republican because it is/was the "Party of Lincoln." The particular hurt the Great Depression levied upon African-Americans and the filibustering and overall opposition to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1966 drove the African-American voting loyalty to the Democratic Party.

Likewise, white southerners were overwhelming Democrats until the mid-1960s. Now, they are the most solidly Republican demographic in the nation.

I guess they just cant stomach all the lies. Black people are basically honest folks. Well the older generation that bled and fought their way this far.

And they also have discernment and are very religious. The republicans just don't seem to be able to scare them into voting that party. But send them packing in the other direction.

You tell me why. I don't really know why they do that. But it is what it is.

I really.. today don't mean to be mean towards the cons but you asked.id say they don't seem to have their best interest at heart. And im not talking about handouts. We have worked and died too.so that is not the reason.

If blacks do vote republican its usually the athletes with money and well to do blacks. For tax reasons. That's what they wanna do .

Its their choice.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.