1870 Rainbowed

As the rain from the 2012 elections continues to pelt through the media like a deluge from Hurricane Sandy, I have a word to my conservative friends.
Pragmatism.
A good business person is pragmatic. Makes decisions based on practical thinking. Gets all the facts. Makes a plan for the desired outcome. Moves ahead.
Oddly, that's where the D's beat the R's this time around. They formed a plan early, used the 2010 census to identify not just key states but key counties, and sunk their efforts into those counties. They even figured they'd have less money to work with than the R's, because they couldn't count on the same SuperPac bonanza.
The key fact pragmatic Conservatives need to seize on in the next election is that the majority of the electorate is no longer, um, White Males.
Here's where R-pragmatists, who are usually fact-based, stubbed their tactical toe. They didn't see the change in terrain. They weren't on the same battlefield they used to be on. Even after the election, the strategic obliviousness remained rooted in the sour grapes of wrath. The Wall Street Journal, bastion of the un-liberal media, sniffed its persistent ignorance. Obama "won ugly" it said, and really, only got "40% of the white male vote."
As if that was the only "real" vote out there.
The Democrats realized a while back an interesting pragmatic fact. The majority of votes aren't coming from white males anymore. We are actually a country made up of all kinds of people.
How did that one song I learned in my conservative Baptist Sunday School go? "Red and Yellow, Black, Brown and White, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."
Perhaps the Republicans should too.
After the rain… comes a rainbow.
America, ya gotta love it.