You and me both and years ago some study came out that showed that while overall people were inclined to become more conservative as they age, women had a statistically higher inclination to get more liberal with time.
Even with the current two parties, we would have a much different country if the voting population was younger.
No, you are misinterpreting the graphs. The rate of change is not measured by the percentage change but rather by the amount of change per unit of time. The GOP has a high percentage of increase among non-whites because its starting number was so low. If the GOP had started with 1% and grown to 5%, that would be a 500% increase over 24 years but only a .17 per year rate of growth.
The percentage of increase is given by ((final number - initial number) / initial number) × 100.
Thus:
GOP = ((13 - 7) / 7) × 100 = 86%
Registered voters = ((28 - 16) / 16 × 100 = 75%
Democrats = ((42 - 24) / 24 × 100 = 75%
However, the rate of increase is given by (final number - initial number) / number of years.
Hence:
GOP = (13 - 7) / 24 = .25
Registered voters = (28 - 16) / 24 = .5
Democrats = (42 - 24) / 24 = .75
Thus while the GOP has the highest percentage of increase of non-white voters, it has the lowest rate of increase of non-white voters, The number of non-white registered voters has grown twice as fast and the number of Democrats three times as fast.
This is obvious from looking at the chart because for any function the rate of change of the function is the slope of the function at any given point. Since the points of the three functions are plotted to the same scale and they are all linear functions, the rate of change is a constant. Clearly, the slope of the lines (= rate of change) increases as you move from the GOP to registered voters to Democrats.
So while it is true that the GOP is not less diverse than it was 24 years ago, it is lagging far behind the general population and ever farther behind the Democrats in its rate of growth in this area.
This schism almost has to happen if the GOP is to survive. Old, hate-filled, and uneducated is not a winning coalition of voters; by definition it is close to death. The problem for Republicans now is that to field a real alternative governing team, they have to repudiate half their voters and re-start the effort to collect smart young people to their side.
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Because people who can think critically, and are educated about actual facts, recognize that the party of NO just does not work as a governing system.
Not at all. This group does not have bigotry toward old people. (Heck, many of us are retired ourselves, which allows us to monitor this board during working hours.) But we do rejoice in the idea that the most virulent supporters of Trump are nearer to death, so they can stop screwing up the system.