New Pew poll exposes long term problems for the left....

One fascinating note in the Pew survey. Pollsters found that about 57 percent of Latino registered voters are either bilingual or more proficient in Spanish than in English. Forty-three percent are more proficient in English than in Spanish. Among the bilingual and Spanish-dominant group, Clinton has a huge lead, 80 percent to 11 percent. Among the English-dominant group, it's a genuinely close race — 48 percent for Clinton to 41 percent for Trump. After all that has happened, Trump polls as well or better with English-dominant Hispanic voters than with the electorate as a whole.

This poll reinforces what many political analysts have suggested for some time. Which is that as Hispanics become more assimilated into the American culture, marrying into white families, and otherwise breaking away from their heritage, that they stop seeing themselves as Hispanic or as a minority. Intuitively that would mean that they become less and less prone to decide their votes on issues of race or immigration, and will over time more closely mirror the voting patterns of Whites.

This is sort of the downside to the left believing that their future electoral success revolves around the changing of the country's demographics, rather than on some set of remarkable policy positions. It also may be why you see resistance on the left to bills that require immigrants and refugees to learn English, and otherwise try to argue that the requirement that they assimilate is unfair and racist.

Once again, it becomes increasingly clear that Democrats benefit from division of race, religion, and nationalities, while Republicans are likely to benefit from more unity and assimilation into our more traditional American culture. Unfortunately for the former, such division relies on an unlimited allowance for new immigrants and refugees. Meanwhile the latter may benefit from the long term effects of interracial marriage, interaction between the races, and the reduction of the cultural divide that is presently so prevalent.

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Note: I believe it's also relevant how often Hispanics get lumped in with Whites when it comes to racism against Blacks. Does anyone remember how George Zimmerman became a "White Hispanic" or how everyone is treating the Mpls shooting as a White/Black issue, even as the shooting officer is Hispanic? These may be little things that most people do not notice or think about, but you would be naive to believe Hispanics do not notice.