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white_redoubt 32 points ago +32 / -0

It didn't flip blue, it got colonized by Hispanics and Asians. The white share of the population has shrunk from 92% in 1960 to 40% now. That is a 50% change in the population distribution in two generations.

Texas is next.

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white_redoubt 2 points ago +2 / -0

Targeting blacks as a whole is ineffective, black women vote 95% for Democrats. Black men are slightly more malleable but have lower turnout. An effective strategy I think would be in targeting working class black fathers, but even then 75% of black kids are born out of wedlock. I agree that the efforts to convince them to vote for Republicans are probably a waste of time, if Trump loses its going to be because of the amount of political capital he spent trying to win over blacks and hispanics over increasing white turnout.