We rarely cite material from The Nation, but here is an exception from Steve Phillips whose topic is how Democrats can win more white votes. I bet you didn’t know the following.
Many people are surprised to learn that Lyndon Johnson was the last Democratic presidential nominee to win the white vote (in 1964). After he signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, no Democratic nominee has won the majority-white vote again. Ever. (Jimmy Carter came the closest, winning 48 percent in 1976.)
Next year, assuming the trend continues, no Democrat will have won a majority of the white votes for president in sixty years. No wonder Democrats have put all their eggs in the "victim groups" basket.
