Here's a bit of good news: 53% of New Mexico voters support Arizona's SB 1070, 35% disapprove.

39% of Hispanics in New Mexico support the Arizona law. 48% are opposed. Whites support SB 1070 in greater numbers. Thus, a majority of New Mexico voters support Gov. Jan Brewer and Arizona, not the Obama administration.

This is surprising on two levels:

1.) Whites are a minority in New Mexico.

2.) Hispanics support Arizona's SB 1070 in greater numbers than one would expect given the hostility of groups like MALDEF and NCLR.

Of the Southwestern states, New Mexico is the weakest on immigration. If Arizona's SB 1070 can succeed here, it stands to reason that it is more popular in states like Texas, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. I wouldn't write off California either.

It is a powerful testament to the weakness of the case for "comprehensive immigration reform" that Arizona is supported by New Mexico where the drumbeat of "racism" and "bigotry" in the media has fallen on so many Hispanic deaf ears.

If we push hard enough, we can win this thing.

At Townhall.com, Bill Murchison takes a few shots at America's obsession with "diversity." He notices it hasn't been the best year for affirmative action. It seems like a good time to pile on.

The elevation of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi to President and House Speaker was supposed to be a transformative change. It marked the "the death grip of white males on the leadership corps." 

How did that experience with identity politics work out?

The idea that race and sex were qualifications for high office was always ludicrous. It was widely ridiculed in rightwing circles at the time. By 2008, America already had decades of experience with black mayors and congressmen. Women had served in the Senate for over a generation. Geraldine Ferraro had ran on the Mondale ticket in 1984.

What a surprise: nothing much changed at all. After the Republicans were thrown out, it was back to business as usual in Washington. Politicians are all the same under the skin.

In the American South, blacks have ruled over many of the Black Belt counties since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Those counties - which I traveled through often growing up - remain among the poorest in America. The same is true of many counties where American Indians and Hispanics are politically predominant. 

In spite of multiple lines of evidence that show otherwise, the delusion still prevails on the Left that empowering minorities is the solution to various social problems. Now is an opportune time to point out this is false while Americans are willing to pay attention. The diversity argument has lost much of its former appeal.

Celebrating Labor Day?

If you are anything like most Americans (whether on the Left or the Right), this Labor Day comes as a reminder of your disappointment with the Obama administration, which won the 2008 presidential election on a campaign promise to restore American prosperity.

Two Labor Days into the Great Recession, a trillion dollars spent here, a trillion dollars spent there, Americans are feeling as glum as ever about the national economy, at the end of what had been widely sold to the public as the "recovery summer."

67,000 new private sector jobs were created last month. When added to the jobs losses in the public sector, a net 50,000 jobs were lost in August. 125,000 new jobs must be created each month to keep pace with the growth of the work force. The American economy looks set to plunge into a "double dip recession."

YWC has always been focused on social issues and the college experience. There are other conservative student groups which focus on fiscal issues like taxes and spending. But whenever I talk to college students these days, the foremost issues on their mind are economic in nature, namely, student loan debt and poor employment prospects after graduation.

These are two of the major reasons that college students were sold on voting for Barack Obama as president. At the time, the Democratic Party seemed more attentive to their immediate economic self-interest. There had been a passive acceptance of America's national decline and leftwing kookiness on campus. 

Having to deal with crazy professors a hour or two a day is one thing. Moving back in with your parents because you can't find a job after graduation is quite another. The two are interconnected.

Here's a bit of good news that should interest YWC readers: Young Americans (18 to 29 year olds) are souring on Barack Obama.

Progressives have long smugly believed the transformation of America is inevitable. Sure, the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers are joining the Tea Party, but Generation X and Generation Y will pull through for us in the long term. Obama won the youth vote 66 percent to 32 percent over McCain.

How often have you heard that argument?

The 2008 presidential election was widely interpreted as a sign that Democrats had a lock on the youth vote. In hindsight, it looks more like a sign of the Bush fatigue and dissatisfaction with a weak Republican candidate that swept the wider electorate.

Since Obama has taken office, his promises of "hope" and "change" have materialized into little more than snake oil, and a terrible job market has dampened identification among the young with the Democratic Party. This has worked to the advantage of the GOP.

Youth for Western Civilization is focused on rolling back the progressive agenda (amnesty for illegal aliens, multiculturalism, political correctness, affirmative action, leftwing indoctrination) in America's universities. Two years after Barack Obama's election, the campus environment is slightly more favorable for conservatives.

Let's hope the political wind continues to blow in our direction. In order for that to happen, the next Congress must seize this historic opportunity. Restoring America is a long term project that will require the hard work of several generations.

Whether this task succeeds or fails will rest on the political convictions of Americans who are now in their twenties and thirties. The lesson for Republicans is not to raise expectations only to fail to deliver.

Nothing fails like being made to feel like a sucker.

The NAACP and a coalition of Far Left groups have joined forces to seek out and expose the "racism" and "extremism" within the Tea Party movement. They have created a new website called TeaPartyTracker.org. It carries the disturbing motto: A Watched Teapot Never Boils.

The strategy is to discredit the Tea Party as a force in mainstream politics by peppering Glenn Beck and conservatives with false charges of "racism." As we saw at the Restoring Honor rally, the definitive proof of Tea Party racism was White people having the audacity to defile the Lincoln Memorial by gathering on a spot which is "owned" by Black people.

The Lincoln Memorial was was dedicated on May 30, 1922: forty years before Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at that spot in 1963. It was built to honor Abraham Lincoln, a White man, and the hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers, the vast majority of whom were White, who lost their lives in the Civil War.

It was their sacrifice in that military conflict that ended slavery in America. Did Glenn Beck and the Tea Party ever say that the Lincoln Memorial was "owned" by White people? History suggests they have the greater claim to it.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin said it belongs to all Americans. They invited all Americans, regardless of their race or religion, to join them at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate uncontroversial things like patriotism, religion, and military service. Yet the spurious charges of "racism" continue to circulate around the internet.

The best TeaPartyTracker.org could produce was a man wearing a t-shirt at the Restoring Honor rally which said, "Blacks own slaves in Mauitania [sic], Sudan, Niger, and Haiti." Last time I checked, that was a true statement. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International have publicized the survival of slavery in Africa for years.

The photo of the man is saved under the file name "racism." According to the NAACP, it is now "racism" for a White man to point out that Blacks own slaves in Africa. That is grossly offensive to Black people. Under the deranged logic of political correctness and multiculturalism, White people are not allowed to oppose slavery anymore without permission.

Just the sight of hundreds of thousands of White people cheering for Martin Luther King, Jr. made Bob Herbert of The New York Times want to take a shower. 

Fear and loathing of White people - call it Europhobia - is the real issue here. The mainstream media is excited by the homophobia, Islamophobia, racism, nativism, and bigotry that it is constantly detecting in the ordinary American conservatives. They write diatribes about this behavior even when it is clear it doesn't exist.

It is merely the reflection of their own prejudice against Middle America. This is only the latest example.

I have been meaning to write about the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally for the past few days, but the aftermath has proven more interesting than the event itself. The Left has worked itself up into another frothing rage against Beck and White people.

Where to start?

In The New York Times, Charles Blow describes Glenn Beck as a self aggrandizing, divisive figure who is "defiling" the Civil Rights Movement. His "nightmare" is the "highest order of insult" to the legacy of Martin Luther King: patriotism, piety, military service, honor, inclusiveness.

Glenn Beck holds a church picnic at the Lincoln Memorial and invites everyone in America to join him. Al Sharpton shows up to protest because too many White people for his tastes have gathered on that sacred spot.

Not to be outdone, Bob Herbert also weighs in at The New York Times, describing Glenn Beck as "an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure" and "a small man with a mean message" and a "provocateur" who is playing with matches in the "tinderbox of racial and ethnic confrontation" and slithering along the "low road." He is so awful that he makes Herbert want to take a shower.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin need to chill out ... before the Ku Klux Klan starts blowing up Black churches.

Can you say delusional? Come to the Lincoln Memorial and celebrate God, America, and our military heroes with Alveda King. You want to lynch Black people!

Howard Dean, the nutroots Democratic candidate the 2004 election, described Glenn Beck's followers as "lost souls" who follow a "racist hatemonger." Beck talks in his speech about "our churches, our mosques, our synagogues" ... every religion in America on display on stage and attendees cheer on Martin Luther King, Jr., but this is interpreted as the clearest evidence yet that Glenn Beck is a racist hatemonger.

Frank Rich ridicules "oppressed white Tea Party America" and nails The Man who is behind it all. Christopher Hitchens describes Restoring Honor as "the Waterworld of White self pity."

Eugene Robinson sees Glenn Beck as a "puffed up huckster" in a "bicorn hat" engaged in "an exercise in self aggrandizment on a Napoleonic scale." He is making the false assertion that the Civil Rights Movement was about equal justice. That we are told is a bunch of nonsense.

After the success of Restoring Honor became apparent, The Huffington Post put out a $100,000 bounty on Glenn Beck's head for a sex tape that could destroy his career. Clearly, the usually humble, self effacing Beck was right that honor desperately needs to be restored in some corners.

You just can't win with some people. In the eyes of the Left, conservatives like Glenn Beck should be tarred and feathered as racists no matter what they do.

When I first heard about this story, I had difficulty believing it was true. Flipping through the news channels on cable television, I couldn't find anything about the incident. Browsing The New York Times and The Washington Post, I haven't seen a word written about the latest "teachable moment" in American race relations.

Mysteriously enough, Eugene Robinson and Frank Rich haven't had anything to say about the "racism" on display at the Iowa State Fairgrounds this past weekend. It doesn't fit the progressive narrative of bigoted, reactionary White Americans oppressing poor, innocent "people of color" like we have seen in the Gatesgate, Arizona, and Ground Zero Mosque debates.

If mobs of Whites had targeted non-Whites at a Tea Party and physically assaulted them on the basis of their skin color, every liberal newspaper, webzine, blog, and television show in America from the East Coast to the West Coast would be thundering in unison against "hate" and "racism." Just imagine the frenzy of moral outrage that liberal talking heads like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow would get themselves worked up into.

Crickets are chirping this time around.

Over the weekend, mobs of Black youths roamed the Iowa State Fairgrounds and randomly assaulted White attendees in what was openly called "Beat Whitey Night." The unruly mob also managed to assault two police officers who had to use a stun gun and chemical sprays to regain control of the situation.

When pressed for comment about racially inflammatory gang related violence in Iowa, Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad (D-Des Moines) said he "doesn't have enough information" to determine whether or not the attacks were racially motivated.

Unfortunately, like any other city, you have certain parts of town that individuals congregate in," Abdul-Samad said. "You have those that go into that area with no problem, and those who cannot."

He added, "We of course need to work on race relations. If anyone says we don't, they are playing games with themselves."

Apparently, those who can go "into that area" without problem are Black, and those who cannot go "into that area" are White. It is comforting to know that Des Moines is "like any other city" in America where Whites know better than to trespass in no-go zones.

Unfortunately, we don't have sufficient information at the present time to determine whether or not a "hate crime" has been committed here. Plant your heads in the sand. Who could have ever predicted that?

In all likelihood, the NAACP will rush to the defense of the "youths" who were arrested in Des Moines, as was the case with the "Jena Six" heroes, and browbeat White Iowans over their "bigotry" and "racism" that led to the unfortunate, but justifiable violent assaults on White patrons of the Iowa State Fair.

 "Social justice" was crying out for some kind of remedy to the chronic unemployment that afflicts the Black community. Such is the twisted logic of multiculturalism and political correctness that now infects the American Heartland.

What happened in Iowa is but the latest poignant reminder.

Below is Pat Buchanan's controversial - and legendary - speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. In the speech, Pat raises the battle cry for what has come to be known as the culture war. As Pat states, this isn't a war for territory, resources, or even political power, but the very hearts and souls of Americans everywhere. Today his words ring just as true as they did two decades ago. 

A sick 29 year-old South Carolina woman murdered her two sons by suffocation on Monday morning, and dumped them in the North Edisto river.  This time it was the local police department jumping to the murderer's defense, shifting the blame, and making excuses.  In spite of the grisly killings, and the fact that the perpetrator, Shaquan Duley, initially lied to police about what happened, hyper-Liberal cnn.com offered this as the story's headline: Police: Dead kids' mom fought with grandma over parenting.

In addition to purportedly taking heat from her mother, Duley was described as "financially desperate", "overwhelmed", and suffering from unemployment.  Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams even praised the killer, saying she, "has been basically a good mom."  Williams also provided this jumbled statement about Duley: "We believe that her thoughts were for me to be free and to do what I wish to do, whatever that may be, if I didn't have the children, I will get rid of them."

The incident does have broader implications for our society.  Most prominently, it makes one wonder why we continue to support a welfare system that financially rewards poor women for having more babies that they cannot or will not take care of.  The murders also offer another example of how poverty, destitution, and crime are the correlative outcome of a family environment in which the father is nowhere to be found.  Shaquan Duley is black, and sadly, between 70% and 80% of black children in America grow up without the presence of their biological father.  Discussing these societal ills is logical and necessary, but only after the criminals are dealt with appropriately by the law and in the media.  In this case, Shaquan Duley has been excused and explained to the brink of complete exoneration.  

The fallout from these killings is, in a way, very reminiscent of the Omar Thornton saga a few weeks ago.  The procedure works like this: First, horrific crimes are committed by a protected minority (crimes that ordinarily are universally derided as savage and completely inexcusable). Next, the media, police, and other talking heads jump through hoops to offer endless explanations for why the criminal was driven to such lenghts, and most of the conditioned American public takes the bait.  Lastly, the incident fades into memory, brushed off until the next crime ripe for a twisting inevitably comes up.    

The Los Angeles Times is warning that Republican criticism of the Ground Zero Mosque could backfire and split the GOP in the run up to the 2010 midterm elections. As proof of the impending schism, the authors cite Grover Norquist and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.

68% of Americans oppose the Ground Zero Mosque. Only 28% favor its construction. The opposition includes 82% of Republicans, 54% of Democrats, and 70% of Independents. 53% of New York City voters oppose the Ground Zero Mosque along with 61% of New Yorkers.

That's what any objective observer calls a winning issue.

In Time, Mark Halperin peddles the same self serving advice: avoid the Ground Zero Mosque. Please don't do it. Pressing the issue would cause "painful divisions." Unlike Cap and Trade, Obamacare, and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

From my perspective, the "painful divisions" appear to be splintering the Democratic Party, not the GOP, now that Barack Obama's full throated defense of Islamization has forced every Democrat to take sides on the issue.

Obama's intent seems to have been to maximize the damage to his own political coalition and further alienate the independent voters who have been deserting him for months now. Sensing disaster, liberals are now trying to persuade gullible, high minded conservatives that their own self interest is served by refusing to score points at the Left's expense.

Since when did the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek start caring about the electoral fortunes of the GOP?

The same dishonest advice comes from the Left on affirmative action, multiculturalism, illegal immigration, gay marriage and all the other winning social issues.

In every case, the social issue is far more popular with the public than the Republican Party, as we saw when Proposition 8 passed in California while going to Obama in a landslide. In every case, Democrats lose when there is real debate on these issues.

Wave the bloody shirt. It is smart politics. It is also the right thing to do.