Will the GOP Embrace Immigration Reform or Continue to Ostracize Key Voters?

Washington Post: Read the census data that have been coming out over the past couple weeks and you're compelled to a stark conclusion: Either the Republican Party changes totally, or it has a rendezvous with extinction. What the census shows is that America's racial minorities, aggregated together, are on track to become its majority. The Republican Party's response to this epochal demographic change has been to do everything in its power to keep America (particularly its electorate) as white as can be. Republicans have obstructed minorities from voting; required Latinos to present papers if the police ask for them; opposed the Dream Act, which would have conferred citizenship on young immigrants who served in our armed forces or went to college; and called for denying the constitutional right to citizenship to American-born children of undocumented immigrants. If the Republicans have a long-term strategic plan, it seems to derive from King Canute, who commanded the tide to stop. The most dramatic numbers in the census are those that tally children. In the first four states for which the Census Bureau released detailed information - New Jersey, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia - the number of whites under age 18 actually declined the past decade. The numbers of Latinos, blacks and Asians among the young, by contrast, are soaring, and they are highest among the youngest.