This article was written before the 2012 election, but it makes the same argument I’ve seen elsewhere from liberal commentators: The “inevitable Democratic majority due to demographics” is not a sure thing, because the major wild card is that more and more Hispanics may come to regard themselves and be regarded by others as “white,” like the “white ethnic” immigrant populations from Europe in previous generations: Irish, Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, Czechs, etc. An combination of upward mobility and alteration of ethnic identity may result in a move of more Hispanic Americans towards the GOP. More…