Does 2004 show that Dem panicking over the Rio Grande Valley is overblown?

[Southern Reactionary Dem]

After all, no way a Democrat can ever bounce back from that sort of trend we saw last year, right?

Oh wait look at 2004. Kerry actually flat out LOST Cameron County, and underran Biden in both Hidalgo and Webb Counties. And those three make up the majority of the region's population since it's a mostly empty region like most of Texas.

It's almost like the region despite being traditionally strongly Dem might also be quite elastic and very prone to pro-incumbent swings or something.

The party is better off without them anyhow.

[Southern Reactionary Dem]

After all, no way a Democrat can ever bounce back from that sort of trend we saw last year, right?

Oh wait look at 2004. Kerry actually flat out LOST Cameron County, and underran Biden in both Hidalgo and Webb Counties. And those three make up the majority of the region's population since it's a mostly empty region like most of Texas.

It's almost like the region despite being traditionally strongly Dem might also be quite elastic and very prone to pro-incumbent swings or something.

The party is better off without them anyhow.

Please, kick hispanics of all stripes out of your party, I beg of you.

I'm tired of so many Democrats shilling for open borders and importing people to compete with our native poor. Maybe if they didn't vote for us, party leadership would stop hurting their own working-class voters for political power.

[Southern Reactionary Dem]

After all, no way a Democrat can ever bounce back from that sort of trend we saw last year, right?

Oh wait look at 2004. Kerry actually flat out LOST Cameron County, and underran Biden in both Hidalgo and Webb Counties. And those three make up the majority of the region's population since it's a mostly empty region like most of Texas.

It's almost like the region despite being traditionally strongly Dem might also be quite elastic and very prone to pro-incumbent swings or something.

The party is better off without them anyhow.

Please, kick hispanics of all stripes out of your party, I beg of you.

I'm tired of so many Democrats shilling for open borders and importing people to compete with our native poor. Maybe if they didn't vote for us, party leadership would stop hurting their own working-class voters for political power.

Uh, you do realise that the Rio Grande Valley has been dominated by Hispanics for centuries, right? They are as ‘native’ as any white working class American.

I get it, but that wasn't really the core of my point. My main point was that open borders, as Bernie Sanders said, is a "Koch brothers proposal". I was saying if Hispanics were more likely to vote for Rs, maybe the Dem leadership wouldn't be so willing to sell out working-class Americans in exchange for importing a future new voter base (and cheap labor for the donors). I made that point because the other poster brought up "Hispanics of all stripes".