The melting pot will be fed, you will never end America

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Yes. Across all major surveys, the Republican Party is majority white, consistently ranging from 80% to 90% depending on the dataset and year.

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  • 85% of Republican voters are white
  • 14% are non‑white (combined Black, Hispanic, Asian, multiracial)Source: Pew’s verified voter study and party composition reports.

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  • Republican Party ID: 83% white
  • Democratic Party ID: 59% white Source: Gallup party identification demographics.

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  • GOP voters: ~88% white
  • Democratic voters: ~60% white Source: CES 2022 & 2023 datasets.

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  • GOP House voters: ~85% white Source: Edison Research exit polling.

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This is not an opinion — it’s a demographic measurement.All major nonpartisan research organizations report the same pattern.

Demographics ≠ ideology, and this does not imply anything about individuals.It’s simply the statistical makeup of the party’s voter base.
 
  • As of June 2025, 44.9 million registered voters in these areas identified themselves as Democrats, representing 36.84% of registered voters in these areas.
  • A total of 38 million registered voters identified themselves as Republicans, representing 31.01% of registered voters in these areas.
  • A total of 33.7 million registered voters identified themselves as independents or unaffiliated with any political party. This amounted to 27.7%
 
countryboy said:
The Great Depression was caused by progressive hero FDR, so it was YOUR thing.

That's YOU.
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No. This claim is historically false.

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  • The Great Depression began with the 1929 stock market crash.
  • FDR took office in March 1933.
  • By then, the economy had already collapsed:
    • GDP had fallen ~30%
    • Unemployment was 25%
    • Thousands of banks had failed
You can’t cause a disaster that started years before you arrived.

See: Great Depression timeline


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Major causes identified by economic historians include:

  • Speculative bubble in the stock market
  • Weak banking regulations
  • Massive credit expansion
  • The Federal Reserve tightening money in 1928–1929
  • Bank failures and loss of consumer confidence
These events all occurred before FDR.

See: Causes_of_the_Great_Depression


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Economists debate how effective the New Deal was, but:

  • It did not cause the Depression
  • It stopped the collapse
  • It reduced unemployment
  • It stabilized banks
  • It created Social Security, FDIC, SEC, etc.
Even critics of the New Deal agree it did not create the Depression.

See: New_Deal_economic_effects


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This claim usually comes from:

  • Misreading of 1937–38 recession (a separate downturn)
  • Ideological arguments against government intervention
  • Revisionist takes that ignore the 1929–1932 collapse
But no mainstream economic historian — left, right, or center — claims FDR caused the Depression.


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The Great Depression was well underway before FDR took office.He inherited a collapsed economy — he didn’t create it.
 
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Germany.
 
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