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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"After the election, white men will constitute a minority of the Democratic House caucus...
...for the first time in history."
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-06/white-men-are-fleeing-congress
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"After the election, white men will constitute a minority of the Democratic House caucus... (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Aug 2012
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morningfog
(18,115 posts)1. Nice! Reccomend.
patrice
(47,992 posts)2. Explains why Repubs are submitting themselves to SLAVERS like gambling god-father Sheldon Adelson.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)3. Correction: not 'fleeing' - being voted out
Or rather, not so much being 'voted out' but that Congress, or at least the Democratic Caucus, is finally starting to more closely represent the nation.
Patiod
(11,816 posts)4. In a logically proportioned Congress, white men would be about 36%
50/50 M/F
Then among men, 72% White, 13% Black, 5% Asian. And we're counting hispanics as "white men"
Yes, population sampling is part of my life.....