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No, we don't have to go back to history to understand those statistics. They are current and most obviously display the fact that the white majority is evaporating in the 21st century.
According to James carville, a guy who pays attention to this stuff: "From 1948 to 1992, it went from 91 to 87 percent. From '92 to 2016, it's going to go from 87 to 70."
He said this in a 2012 interview.
The 2012 election showed the white majority went down 2 points from the 2008 election, from 74% to 72%. Just as statistics said they would. The white population will decline by another 2 points in 2106. Just as Carville predicted, the total white vote will represent 70% of the population. A majority, but a continually shrinking one. Split down the middle, that's only 35% of the voters on either side in 2016. Depending on the white vote only to win an election means a candidate would have to capture 70% of the white vote, and there is no way that will ever happen.
The 20th century is long gone. It holds few viable examples of what is going to happen forward into the future, especially when it comes to race vs. political affiliation.
Perhaps you can stomp your foot and say "so there". It might make you more credible.
How many times do you need somebody to tell you that the Democrats were the socially conservative party in the South (and places like WV) really until the 60s-1980. In all reality, once you get prior to the 1960s, it's hard to blame everything that happened on that party today. For example, most modern Democrats would be horrified by Dixiecrat platforms, and plenty of Republicans of today would scream "socialism" at Eisenhower's plans from the 1950s.
Byrd was old enough, for example, to have vowed memorably regarding the integration of the Armed Forces by President Truman that he would never fight “with a Negro by my side.
Democrats today seem able to deny their past, but not to renounce it.
But Democrats outside of WV never called on Byrd to resign.
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