Never. I'm surprised this isn't obvious to all. Demographic trends cannot be disputed. Hispanic numbers are massive and accelerating. That transfers into millions more of low income voters who will pull the Democratic lever to get more government goodies. It's the dirty little secret that Republicans operatives know but somehow never say out loud. California is long gone. New Mexico will be gone in 2008. In 2012 wave bye bye to Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. By 2012 the numbers will have sufficiently changed to add to Democratic totals in other now close battleground states in other parts of the country.
Just one example of how drastic the change is. California study released yesterday indicated the demographics of California by 2050 - 52% Hispanic, 26% white, the rest a mixture of Aian (13%) Black (6%) and other. Texas (of all states) will be gone by 2020 - Hispanic plurality by then and Hispanic majority by 2025.
Two terms of Hillary and by 2016 presidential elections won't even be competitive. All you have to do is do the math. Facts are brutal things. Numbers don't lie.
Oh, I really so enjoyed reading this! Thanks. But of course I'm sure you know the parties will always tend towards a 50/50 split by following the changes in the electorate...
However - the problem with following the electorate is this: both parties have to serve and protect the owning class regardless. That is their purpose. But whatever the ethnicity of the electorate, it has always been made up mostly of working class people, and they've never had their interests served, so I think we can feel sure the status quo will be preserved. Let's just sit back and see how it is accomplished as the country gets browner. I think it is safe to assume that it will be, since the alternative is a Pinochet.
