Black people used to be staunchly Republican until the 1930s. The shift over to the Democrats was a conscious decision, and for quite a while could have gone back the other way just as easily. It was only after identity politics took over later on that it became cemented as an essential part of "blackness." IIRC the Hispanic vote was usually reasonably split up until then too. Basically my opinion is that if the Republican party had beaten Democrats to the punch on pushing fake wokeness then minorities would still be favoring them instead.

Of course, those things were long enough ago that it's going to seem like they were always this way to anyone outside of a nursing home, so I do get where you're coming from. It probably also seems like the current leftist antics are a recent development, but this is just a resurgence of how bad they were around fifty years ago, and before that there were problems with anarchists and assorted radicals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well. They've been dialing it up and down throughout the decades depending on what they could get away with at the time.

Like you said, regardless of any changes or their causes, it is definitely true that more immigrants means more free votes for Democrats, plus more seats in congress from the increased population. It also means more dirt cheap and desperate labor. In other words, it's slavery all over again, and they even defend it with the same argument that it's all really for the benefit of the people they're exploiting, since they're still so much better off over here than where they came from. In all this time, they haven't changed one bit, they just have a better PR team than their Confederate predecessors. It's always depressing to see so many people fall for it.

Black people used to be staunchly Republican until the 1930s. The shift over to the Democrats was a conscious decision, and for quite a while could have gone back the other way just as easily. It was only after identity politics took over later on that it became cemented as an essential part of "blackness." IIRC the Hispanic vote was usually reasonably split up until then too.

Of course, those things were long enough ago that it's going to seem like they were always this way to anyone outside of a nursing home, so I do get where you're coming from. It probably also seems like the current leftist antics are a recent development, but this is just a resurgence of how bad they were around fifty years ago, and before that there were problems with anarchists and assorted radicals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well. They've been dialing it up and down throughout the decades depending on what they could get away with at the time.

Like you said, regardless of any changes or their causes, it is definitely true that more immigrants means more free votes for Democrats, plus more seats in congress from the increased population. It also means more dirt cheap and desperate labor. In other words, it's slavery all over again, and they even defend it with the same argument that it's all really for the benefit of the people they're exploiting, since they're still so much better off over here than where they came from. In all this time, they haven't changed one bit, they just have a better PR team than their Confederate predecessors. It's always depressing to see so many people fall for it.