{"id":52593,"date":"2012-11-14T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52593"},"modified":"2012-11-11T02:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T07:30:55","slug":"u-s-racialethnic-demographics-1960-today-and-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/14\/u-s-racialethnic-demographics-1960-today-and-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Racial\/Ethnic Demographics: 1960, Today, and 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama won just over 50% of the popular vote last week, but he earned 80% of non-white votes. \u00a0According to USA Today<\/a> exit poll data, he secured 93% of the Black vote, 73% of the Asian vote, 71% of the Hispanic vote, and 58% of the non-white Other vote.<\/p>\n

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This data suggests are real and palpable difference between how (some) Whites and (most) non-Whites see the world, a\u00a0difference that will become increasingly influential.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month the Pew Research Center<\/a> released an updated prediction for the racial\/ethnic composition of the U.S. in 2050. \u00a0They expect that, by 2050, Whites will be a minority, adding up to only 47% of the population. \u00a0By that time, they expect Hispanics to account for 29% of the population, and Blacks and Asians to account for 13% and 9% respectively.<\/p>\n

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Paul Taylor and D’Vera Cohn, at Pew, observe that the demographics of the voting<\/em> population will change a bit slower since the majority of the demographic change is from births and deaths, not immigration. \u00a0In 2011, for example, whites were 66% of those ages 18 and older, but only\u00a056% of 18-year-olds. \u00a0In other words, it takes 18 years to grow a voter.<\/p>\n

Whatever the pace of change, the era of winning U.S. elections by pandering to the worldview of a single group is ending. \u00a0Future politicians will likely have to put effort into attracting a wide range of voters, as Obama did on Tuesday.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama won just over 50% of the popular vote last week, but he earned 80% of non-white votes. \u00a0According to USA Today exit poll data, he secured 93% of the Black vote, 73% of the Asian vote, 71% of the Hispanic vote, and 58% of the non-white Other vote. This data suggests are real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,253,3920,85,8121,285,1759,1760,1754,1757],"class_list":["post-52593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-history","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-election-2012","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52597,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions\/52597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}