Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin thinks he has deduced why Republican-run states are passing new voting laws, but his analysis is amateurish and statistically inaccurate.

Durbin’s grand conclusion was that the GOP was motivated by racism. Not exactly treading new ground, Durbin said on the floor of the Senate, “The demographics of America are not on the side of the Republican Party. The new voters in this country are moving away from them.”