The only way to ensure victory in deeply red areas is to make them more diverse.

I've seen quite a few posts here today from well-meaning by naive people who believe that if Democrats simply fine tune or repackage their message to better suit the sensibilities of people in deeply red areas, we'd win more elections in such places. While that strategy may actually work in some instances, it naturally begs the question of how much of our core beliefs (our souls, as it were) are we willing to surrender simply to garner a few more seats in the Congress? Which groups do we throw under the bus to achieve this? African-Americans? LGBT Americans? Muslims? Latinos? Who? Would we even still be Democrats if we kowtowed to prejudices and fears of the people in these areas anyway?

No, my hunch is that we're never going to win the hearts and minds of these people because they see us and our beliefs as everything they despise about contemporary America. The only surefire way to win in these areas is not merely to expand our outreach to such places, but to expand and then energize our voter base there as well. I mentioned in an thread earlier that the key to achieving this may lie in a Supreme Court ruling from June, 2015, that asserted that federal housing laws allows for people to challenge housing practices deemed to have a harmful and injurious impact on minority groups.

In practice, this means that Housing Choice Vouchers to allow poor minorities to move into higher opportunity areas can be issued. Indeed, President Obama had HUD initiate such an effort last year in Maryland to help promote better housing mobility in that state. These vouchers not only help poor minorities find better housing and opportunities in wealthy and upper-middle-class suburban areas, but they help to diversify them as well. This program needs to be expanded and supported in every corner of the nation for the benefit of all.

In addition, we must continue to do our utmost to fight tooth and nail against Dumpo's xenophobic and racist immigration & travel ban. Resettling refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America is not just the humane thing to do, but the smart thing to do if they are resettled in places that are Republican strongholds that currently lack diversity. Nothing will change much election wise until these areas actually reflect what the rest of America...the real America... really looks like. Who knows, it might even have the added benefit of making the provincial rubes and deplorables who mindlessly vote Republican out of hatred and fear more worldly and less afraid once they see that all human beings are the same.

What do you guys think?