will there be ethnic polarization in voting in the future?

[Ogre Mage]

There is ethnic polarization in voting now and there will be in the future.  I think minorities (myself included) are turned off by the policies and rhetoric they see from the Republican Party and its affiliates.  There are simply too many Tom Tancredo/Steve King/Newt Gingrich/Rush Limbaugh types around.  Supporting an electric border fence as "we do that with livestock all the time" or saying that Obama represents a "Kenyan, anti-colonial worldview" is not going to win a lot of minority support.

I would never vote for a candidate just because he or she was a certain race.  Obviously the issues are more important.  But I don't buy the notion of being 100% colorblind about my elected representation.  Our society is too complex to say that it makes no difference at all. Members of groups that are not a part of the majority and/or have been historically discriminated against often bring a different and valuable perspective to the table because of those experiences.  Otherwise you wind up with the spectacle of Anita Hill being grilled by a tone-deaf all-male Senate Judiciary Committee about sexual harassment.  The fact that so many women got elected in 1992 was no accident.