what have the democrats actually done to act in the best interest of hispanics?
they had complete control of congress and did nothing on immigration as far as I'm aware.
Doing anything at all on immigration will alienate most of the Hispanics in the country -- that's how the Republicans have done most of their alienating, by actually suggesting we enforce our laws and protect our borders, without coming down like a hammer on the illegals already here (like much of their base wants to, which alienates even more [e.g. I know a gal who ditched the Republicans and went Libertarian because she couldn't believe the widespread rumbles about pretty much scraping illegals into dump trucks and hauling them back across the border to dump them]).
The question was, have Republicans alienated Hispanics and Muslims, not what have Democrats done for them as hotatlboi pointed out.
My response is, of course Republicans have. Who wouldn't be alienated by a group of people saying you're not welcome, we don't want your kind here.
I love the gal who's Puerto Rican etc. etc. etc. Can we please have her as a big name Republican and throw Sarah Palin off her back porch into Russia?
Yes.
I remember this from long ago:
A Green Field
If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel. Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation but a sorrow shared with the world.
Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. Let there be paths that wind through the shade. Put out park benches where old people can sun in the springtime, and a pond where children can skate in the winter.
Beneath this field will lie entombed forever some of the victims of September 11. It is not where they thought to end their lives. Like the sailors of the battleship Arizona, they rest where they fell.
Let this field stretch from one end of the destruction to the other. Let this open space among the towers mark the emptiness in our hearts. But do not make it a sad place. Give it no name. Let people think of it as the green field. Every living thing that is planted here will show faith in the future.
Let students from all lands take a sunny corner of the field and plant a crop there. Perhaps corn, our native grain. Let the harvest be shared all over the world, with friends and enemies, because that is the teaching of our religions. Let the harvest show that life prevails over death, and let the sharing show that we love our neighbors.
Do not build again on this place. No building can stand here. No building, no statue, no column, no arch, no symbol, no name, no date, no statement. Just the comfort of the earth, to remind us that we share it.
Democrats: Hated by the middle class & rich.
Republicans: Hated by minorities and the poor.
Republicans can poke people all they want. In the end, most people in the group will still like the parties fiscal policies and in the end those policies win the favor of those people. I don't think they have done any real damage to their voter base in those groups.
Funny -- most of the Republicans around here are poor, or when they aren't are bending over backward to provide jobs for the poor; and most of the rich folks around here are Democrats.
That just shows a different example of how Republicans on the whole have alienated minorities: stereotyping. It's easy to stereotype the Tea Party movement as racist -- except, that's false. It's easy to stereotype Republicans as rich -- except, that's false. And it's easy to stereotype minorities as lazy or coming to "steal America" (I heard that one on the radio, and wondered, "How?") -- except, that's also false.
