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Republicans should drop outreach efforts to potential Latino voters. White voters are much more likely to back the GOP. That's the conventional-wisdom-defying message from veteran conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly:

“The Hispanics who come in like this are going to vote Democrat. There isn’t the slightest bit of evidence that they are going to vote Republican. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes — the white voters who didn’t vote in the last election. There are millions of them. I think when you have an establishment-run nomination system, they give us a series of losers, which they’ve given us with Dole, McCain, and Romney and they give us people who don’t connect with the grassroots.” http://politix.topix.com/homepage/6309-phyllis-schlafly-encourages-gop
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The GOP has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections exactly by pursuing this type of strategy.

Here's another problem for Republicans: Latino population growth is being driven by Hispanic kids born in the U.S. (aka future eligible voters), and not "Hispanics coming in from Mexico," as Schlafly put it.

Simply put, the GOP needs non-white voters in order to be competitive in future elections.

As Ron Brownstein noted last August, Republicans now acknowledge that they will need to change the way they do business:

"Republican strategists clearly feel the weight of trying to assemble a national majority with so little support among minorities that they must win three in five whites. "This is the last time anyone will try to do this," one said. If Republicans can't find more effective ways to bridge the priorities of their conservative core and the diversifying Next America, that weight will grow more daunting every year." More at http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/phyllis-schlafly-myth-rep
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She is known for her opposition to modern feminism and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Her self-published book, "A Choice, Not An Echo", became a manifesto in support of Republican Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential bid.

Her views on the GOP's need to win over white voters echoes advice given by Goldwater more than a half-century ago. Goldwater vowed to "go hunting where the ducks are" by using his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to persuade white Southerners to abandon the party of their forefathers, the Democrats.

Goldwater disdained any effort in the South even to retain the support of a vestigial core of middle-class black Republicans that dated all the way back to Reconstruction. But Goldwater moderated his views considerably in later years. http://politix.topix.com/homepage/6309-phyllis-schlafly-encourages-gop
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