Do Race and Politics Mix?

Is there a connection between the racial makeup of a particular state and whether that state votes red or votes blue? You would assume this to be the case, since so much of Orange Shithead’s political stance was racially-based. And since we keep being told that by 2030 the United States population, racially-speaking, will be less than 50% White, shouldn’t we be able to see the handwriting on the wall in terms election returns?

After all, isn’t this the reason Orange Shithead made such a big deal about border security in his two Presidential campaigns? Wasn’t he basically saying that by letting all these Brown-skinned people in from the South we were just giving the Democrats vote they didn’t deserve?

And yet when I look at a racial breakdown of our state-by-state population, this argument actually doesn’t work. In fact, for all the talk about how America is polarized on issues such as race, the racial profile versus the political alignment of the 50 states doesn’t seem to have any connection at all. Ready?

Here’s a map which shows which party controls the legislature in every state: