If anything, minorities are voting with more frequency and in larger percentages than at any other recent time.
Stephen Moore: Unleash Prosperity Hotline – All we hear about from the Left these days are shouts of voter suppression. The WSJ editorial page explodes that myth in its editorial this weekend Democrats' Jim Crow fantasy.
The editorial begins early on by saying, "Amid the overwrought reaction, let’s see what happened to minority voting and representation in Congress since the Court’s 2013 Shelby County landmark.
"Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion this (last) week highlighted America’s racial progress. He quoted Shelby County as saying that since the Voting Rrights Act’s enactment in 1965, 'voting tests were abolished, disparities in voter registration and turnout due to race were erased, and African-Americans attained political office in record numbers.' He added that 'black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate.'”
The left ignores all this, so let’s look at some of the numbers.
Some 45.1% of the black voting-age citizen population cast ballots in 2022, and 51.1% did so in 2018, according to Census Bureau data. That's significantly higher than the black turnouts in three midterms prior to the Shelby County case; 2010 (43.5%), 2006 (41%) and 2002 (42.3%).
Voting among Hispanics and Asians has also increased over the last two decades.
Voting among Hispanics and Asians has also increased over the last two decades. - About 40% of Asian citizens cast ballots in the 2018 and 2022 midterms, versus 30.8% in 2010.
- Hispanic turnout rose to 37.9% in 2022, and 40.4% in 2018 from 31.2% in 2010.
In 2020 the share of eligible Hispanics (53.7%) and Asian voters (59.7%) who cast ballots hit records.
We think a picture is worth a thousand words, so we prepared the chart below showing the trend of minority voting in non-presidential election years.
The numbers are up, not down for each minority group.
If anything, minorities are voting with more frequency and in larger percentages than at any other recent time.
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