Gary Younge

Gary Younge is a feature writer and columnist for the Guardian based in the US

Sep 102012
 

Demographics ditch "Nixon's Southern strategy" of courting whites, leave GOP scrambling.

As Republicans were promoting themselves as a multiracial party from the platform in Tampa two weeks ago, an ugly incident on the convention floor suggested not everyone had got the memo. From the podium a range of speakers of Haitian, Mexican, Cuban and Indian descent spoke of how their parents had overcome huge barriers so they could succeed in the US.

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