I find it humor ous how so many white progressives pretend that the black and Hispanic sections of the Democratic party do not really exist.

the CBC has never been interested in Bipartisanship.

That's not true, the Canadian Broadcasting Company is always objective and reports the facts accurately.

Blacks would rather vote for Marion Barry and Kwame Kilpatrick before they would vote for a Republican.

Might that have something to do with the fact that many republicans long for the days when a Negro knew his place and that his place was at the back of the bus?

You are familiar with the Southern Strategy

the CBC has never been interested in Bipartisanship. they would never go along with anything that a Republican proposed. Blacks would rather vote for Marion Barry and Kwame Kilpatrick before they would vote for a Republican.

So if the argument that all talk of biapartisanship should really only involve whites or are you really arguing that the CBC would support bipartisanship?

The modern GOP, however, has no use for bipartisanship. As a conservative maxim originally coined by Dick Armey, the recently-retired Republican majority leader, puts it, “Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.” It is almost impossible to imagine any leading Democratic politician or activist voicing the same sentiment. For better or for worse, they remain bound to the Washington establishment's notion that bipartisanship is a virtue to be striven for.

And I completely agree with 'mixing it up' (that's why I still hang around here, after all!) I wish everyone would stop putting their hands over their ears when they hear someone with a contrarian viewpoint; critical thinking and the development of sound policy requires a willingness to challenge our own views with opposing ones and find the strengths and weaknesses of each side.

Also, sorting is due to more people marrying within their economic, educational, and social class. Since race is an 80% plus indication of voting preference for everyone but whites, it also makes sense that there would be less bipartisanship.

The real question is what will the former Republicans do after the Republican party completes its collapse and the U.S. is left with one relevant poltical party? Also, what happens when the general elections become a moot exercise to rubber stamp what was decided in the Democratic Primary? Also, as the U.S. becomes a one party state what will happen when people can no longer vote with their feet.