counternotions“Whites were 84 percent of the U.S. population in 1970, but by 2020 they were down to 58 percent, and soon roughly half the U.S. population will be non-White.”
Consequences?
Between 1980 and 2020 representation in Congress
Black: 19 → 64
Hispanic/Latino: 9 → 51
Asian: 6 → 8
Consequences:
The Third Founding: The Rise of Multiracial Democracy and the Authoritarian Reaction Against It — California Law Review
Many, many thanks to the Brennan Center and to Berkeley Law for the invitation to speak at this event. It’s really an honor to be here as part of the series, and also with this really distinguished…
pablo”The most successful liberal democracies on Earth are quite majoritarian: Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand.” True, but these are also much more demographically homogeneous than the US. Sadly, it’s unclear if these examples hold in the face of the trends in population changes (at least for Sweden) @counternotions