H/T One Old Vet

No sooner had Steve Sailer observed Core Vs. Fringe, Cont’d: Media Starts To Catch Up On Sailer Strategy

I’ve been analyzing elections since 2000, [GOP Future Depends on Winning Larger Share of the White Vote. November 28, 2000] and, ever so slowly, some of my insights are starting to become conventional wisdom.

than a Columbia University academic gets to publish a column in the New York Times concurring:  The Demise of the White Democratic Voter by Thomas B Edsall Nov 11, 2014

It has not escaped the notice of political analysts that 72 percent of whites without college degrees — a rough proxy for what we used to call the white working class — believe that “the U.S. economic system generally favors the wealthy.” Or that on Nov. 4, these same men and women voted for Republican House candidates 64-34.

Even more remarkable, Edsall acknowledges that Obamacare (maybe we should rechristen it GruberCare) is Racial Socialism (although of course he does not use the term):

Obamacare shifts health care benefits and tax burdens from upper-income Americans to lower-income Americans, and from largely white constituencies to beneficiaries disproportionately made up of racial and ethnic minorities…

To achieve its goals, Obamacare reduces spending on Medicare by $500 billion over 10 years, according to the Medicare board of trustees, which oversees the finances of the program. Medicare serves a population that is 77 percent white. Even as reductions in Medicare spending fall disproportionately on white voters, the savings are being used to finance Obamacare, which includes a substantial expansion of Medicaid. Medicaid recipients are overwhelmingly poor and, in 2013, were 41 percent white and 59 percent minority.

In addition to expanding Medicaid, the overall goal of Obamacare is to provide health coverage for the uninsured, a population that, in 2010 when the program was enacted, was 47 percent white, and 53 percent black, Hispanic, Asian-American and other minorities.

It’s not hard to see, then, why a majority of white midterm voters withheld support from Democrats and cast their votes for Republicans.

Edsall pays for his admission ticket to the New York Times by suggesting avoiding Culture War issues helped the GOP in 2014 but concludes by noting

The white vote in the years since 1992 has become consistently more committed to Republican candidates. Mitt Romney carried whites by a 20-point margin, 59-39, larger than either John McCain, 12 points, or George W. Bush, 17 points.

And suggesting that even Hillary Clinton as Presidential nominee would have

...her work cut out for her, especially if the Republican nominee…makes a concerted effort to further erode — by whatever means necessary — white Democratic support

VDARE.com emphasis. We like that!

To think that Steve’s just discussing the White Vote got us banned from Free Republic in 2001!