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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Congress Looks Like When You Average All Of Their Pictures Together
The 113th Congress is the most diverse in history -- but how diverse is that, really?
Looking at this composite image of the 535 members of congress created by Matthew Skomarovsky, the answer is clearly "not very." (Indeed, Congress was 82 percent white and 81 percent male in 2013).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/congress-average-picture_n_4688163.html
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What Congress Looks Like When You Average All Of Their Pictures Together (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2014
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1000words
(7,051 posts)1. Not sure what the point was ...
Wasn't it already obvious white males are the dominant participants?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. OMG! What I saw was Rush Limbaugh!
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)3. Should have shown us a visual representation of their wealth.
In a "Before and After" format.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)4. Race is close but gender is way off
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)5. A face meld with Rush and Mike Lee
but since Rush isn't in Congress, it'll habe to be Mike Lee.
Damn.