Immigration Changing Virginia From GOP to Democrat State

“The birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson–and once one of the most reliably-red of red states–is being rapidly turned into a progressive stronghold.”

So begins Julia Hahn of Breitbart News, in an outstanding news story backed with comprehensive analysis, ‘New California: Mass Immigration Turning Virginia Blue.’  She cites a University of Virginia study that notes: “Until 1970, only 1 in 100 Virginians was born outside of the United States; by 2012 1 in every 9 Virginians is foreign-born.”  Most of the immigrants to Virginia are Hispanic or Asian, and most vote for Democrats, as do their children.

The same transformation is occurring across the nation.  Hahn quotes a Reuters article on U.S. visa policy: “Immigrants favor Democratic candidates and liberal policies by a wide margin, surveys show, and they have moved formerly competitive states like Illinois firmly into the Democratic column and could turn Republican strongholds like Georgia and Texas into battlegrounds in the years to come.”  A 2014 report by University of Maryland professor James Gimpel, similarly found that, “the enormous flow of legal immigrants in to the country — 29.5 million 1980 to 2012 — has remade the nation’s electorate in favor of the Democratic Party.”

This fact-filled news article is must reading:  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/26/new-california-mass-immigration-turning-virginia-blue/

Posted 7/27/15 by Andrew Lewis

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