WhaTHellsgoingonhere
WhaTHellsgoingonhere's JournalEmerging Democratic majority may never happen
My guess is that Mexican-Americans, a major Latino group, will vote more like Irish- and Italian-Americans than African-Americans. Moreover, as in the case of European-American ethnics, the ethnicity of Mexican-Americans, outside of heavily immigrant enclaves, may become attenuated pretty quickly.
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One result of Latino assimilation may be the collapse of the very idea of a “nonwhite majority” except as a meaningless statistical category. Already a majority of Latinos identify themselves as “white” when given the option on census forms. As I argued in a 1996 New York Times Magazine essay, “The Beige and the Black,” because of the depth of anti-black racism in the U.S., America’s informal racial caste consciousness has always been binary—not whites vs. nonwhites, but blacks vs. non-blacks. The “white” category has been an elastic one that has expanded to incorporate successive non-black immigrant groups—first European “ethnics” and in the future, perhaps, Latinos and Asian-Americans.
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/17/doomed_by_the_south_why_the_emerging_democratic_majority_may_never_happen/
But more Hispanics are identifying themselves "white"
The researchers found that 2.5 million Americans of Hispanic origin, or approximately 7 percent of the 35 million Americans of Hispanic origin in 2000, changed their race from “some other race” in 2000 to “white” in 2010. An additional 1.3 million people switched in the other direction. A noteworthy but unspecified share of the change came from children who weren’t old enough to fill out a form in 2000, but chose for themselves in 2010.
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The data also call into question whether America is destined to become a so-called minority-majority nation, where whites represent a minority of the nation’s population. Those projections assume that Hispanics aren’t white, but if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
I crossed that bridge a number of weeks ago...
She's waaaaaaayyyy too ahead of her time.
She's right where she's supposed to be. Doesn't have to pander to the right while being better able to inspire Main Street than a compromised Clinton.
Keep it up, Senator! You da bomb! 
Should call you EPIC_FAIL_ART. No Conflation Zone
There's never been a Gen-Xer in any leadership capacity, dude.
Representative Baby Boomer (check)
Senator Baby Boomer (check check)
Secretary of State Baby Boomer (check check check)
President Baby Boomer (checks across the board)
Your fucking economy. Your fucking wars. Your fucking climate.
What's the military's role in all of this?
Bill O'Reilly lies about having served in the military, BushCo was nothing but liars and chicken hawks.
The military is complicit.
Why is that???
Distinct cultures with distinct histories, interpretations of the constitution...
sets of scientists and facts, educational systems...
Indeed, at least 2 countries.
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