What Congress Looks Like When You Average All Of Their Pictures Together

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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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1. Not sure what the point was ...

Wasn't it already obvious white males are the dominant participants?

[Scuba]

2. OMG! What I saw was Rush Limbaugh!

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Should have shown us a visual representation of their wealth.

In a "Before and After" format.

[seveneyes]

4. Race is close but gender is way off

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

78% white 2012 census vs 82% white Congress.

[Sheepshank]

5. A face meld with Rush and Mike Lee

but since Rush isn't in Congress, it'll habe to be Mike Lee.

Damn.