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Daniel Greenfield: “Americans Alone”
By: Daniel Greenfield
Posted On Sep 19 2014
For the first time in American statistical history, the majority of
American adults are single. 124 million or 50.2% of Americans are
single. Some will get married, but increasing numbers never will.
Demographically a population of single adults means the death of the
Republican Party. It eliminates the possibility of libertarian and
fiscally conservative policies. It leads inevitably to the welfare
state.
Single people are less likely to have a support system that keeps them
from becoming a public charge. Children born to single parents perform
poorly in school and are more likely to engage in criminal behavior. A
nation of single people will inevitably become a welfare state and a
police state.
The statistics have always been known and the conclusions to be drawn
from them are inescapable.
A lot of attention is being paid to the political consequences of the
nation’s changing racial demographics, but it’s not a coincidence that
the racial group that Republicans perform worst with is also the least
likely to be married. While there are other factors in the mix,
Republicans do better with married than unmarried black people.
The same is true of most other racial groups.
The latest Reuters poll shows that 36% of married Hispanics are
planning to vote for a Democratic candidate in the upcoming midterm
election and 28% are planning to vote for a Republican candidate. Among
unmarried Hispanics, those numbers change to 42% Democratic and %15
Republican.
If Republicans want to start getting serious about the Hispanic vote,
they might want to spend less time muttering about amnesty and more
time thinking about where their strength with married voters lies.
Married white voters lean toward a Republican candidate by 43% to 24%.
Among single white voters, Democrats lead 34% to 26%. There are other
factors that affect these numbers such as age, race, sexual orientation
and religious affiliation. Growing minority demographics have certainly
helped make single Americans a statistical majority, but it’s dangerous
to ignore the bigger picture of the post-family demographic trend.
If Republicans insist on running against the nanny state, they will
have to replace it with something. That something was traditionally the
family. Take away the family and something else has to fill its place.
In the West, government has become the new family. The state is father
and occasionally mother. The nanny state is literally a nanny. It may
be hated, but it is also needed.
That is why married whites oppose ObamaCare 65% to 34% while single
whites also oppose it, but by a narrower margin of 53% to 47%.
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