More Census Bad News For the GOP and Tea Party

The GOP and the Tea Party/Christianist base of the GOP cannot be pleased with the results of a new detailed report released by the U.S. Census Bureau. First, the U.S. population is aging - not a good thing for a party that has declared war on seniors via it's proposal to kill Medicare. Second, the Hispanic population is booming and growing far more rapidly that the aging white population that makes up much of the GOP base. A brief reading of Tea Party and Christianist websites makes it clear that brown skinned and Hispanic individuals are not welcomed by either of these factions which now hold inordinate sway over the GOP. As I've noted before, by embracing these groups to the exclusion of others, the GOP seems bent on committing a slow form of suicide. Here are some highlights from Time on the new report:
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A second U.S. Census report focused on the Hispanic population, which at 50.5 million has grown 43% over the past 10 years. That's four times faster than the general U.S. population and more than 40 times faster than non-Hispanic whites, who grew by a measly 1%. In certain areas of the country — namely the Northeast and the Midwest, where many states experienced stunted or nonexistent population expansion — the Hispanic population sometimes rose as much as 12 times faster than the state's population overall.
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As the rest of the country continues to age, the expansion of the youthful Hispanic population will help offset the rest of the nation's demographic shift.
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Some of the Census' findings shed light on what we already know: towns and cities near the U.S.-Mexican border have a significantly higher than average percentage of Hispanic residents for example, and in fact, half of the U.S. Hispanic population lives in just three states: California, Texas and Florida. (Overall, people of Mexican origin account for nearly three-fourths of the U.S. Hispanic population; most Floridan Hispanics, however, are Puerto Rican and Cuban.)
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But Groves points out that these areas aren't the only parts of the country affected by this Hispanic population boom. There are small pockets of immigrants peppered all over the country, especially in rural areas. Even the suburbs are seeing an influx of minority and immigrant residents. "We're actually at the beginning of a transition," says Groves. "In the next ten years, we will go through an amazing, interesting, fascinating change of cultures rubbing up against each other."
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No doubt the Tea Party/Christianist elements will become more shrill in their anti-Hispanic screed just as will happen with their jihad against LGBT citizens. The population is changing and only those who feel that they are losing special privileges seem to be concerned.