Conservatives are creating their own electoral enemies.

"Race is a social construction, not something out there in the world, but something we as society create the rules, rhetoric, and identities for. And in the political process nothing more assuredly creates firm political identities than the experience of prejudice, contempt, marginalization, and condescension... The beating heart of modern conservatism is its visceral appeal to the anxieties and fears of white Christians...and all the pathos and ugliness that implies... This does not mean demography is destiny, since the construction of political identities that correlate to our racial categories is a dynamic process and not fixed fact..."

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-chris-hayes/49770692

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