Paul Krugman's NYTimes column, Seeking Willie Horton, says that the changing demographics of this country are making it more difficult for Republicans to use that race-based electoral strategy. As if Republicans were the only ones who used racial divisions to their advantage. America is not only browner, but the brown people aren't staying put in the 10-12 places we all used to live ten years ago.
He seems to think that the recent murders in Newark are a good tool for those still loyal to that strategy:
He seems to think that the recent murders in Newark are a good tool for those still loyal to that strategy:
"Now some Republicans are trying to make similar use of the recent murder of three college students in Newark, a crime in which two of the suspects are Hispanic illegal immigrants. Tom Tancredo flew into Newark to accuse the city’s leaders of inviting the crime by failing to enforce immigration laws, while Newt Gingrich declared that the “war here at home” against illegal immigrants is “even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
