Immigration Reform Not Required, Part 2

Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics has posted his second of three columns on the topic: why the GOP doesn't need to pass the immigration bill. You'll want to read it. The charts and maps that accompany this column are excellent.

Scanning the voting trends among blacks, Hispanics and whites, Trende finds that Republicans are likely to win more electoral votes than Democrats thru the year 2040, after which demographic trends favor Democrats. (PVI is an acronym for partisan voting index, how strongly a U.S. congressional district leans toward one party or the other.)

Here is a choice Trende quote:

It’s entirely possible that as our nation becomes more diverse, our political coalitions will increasingly fracture along racial/ethnic lines rather than ideological ones.

You think so?