As they say, words matter. For Republicans seeking the long road back to being a national and broad-based party, the movement toward a bipartisan and comprehensive immigration plan is a start, but it doesn’t finish the job. GOP candidates got pounded in the November election among minority voters: Mitt Romney […] Read more »
Turnout’s uncertain trajectory
… Will the Obama youth and minority surge cohort keep on voting? Were the 2008 and 2012 elections instrumental in instilling a habit of voting that lasts lifetimes? Or will young and minority voters, especially Latinos, begin behaving like their peer cohorts of decades ago, lagging the participation rates of […] Read more »
What’s Good about Generation Y?
… Over the last two decades, numerous quantitative studies have attempted to measure and compare the attitudes, beliefs, values, behaviors, and personality traits of different generations. Some have found that the younger generation—X or Y, depending on the study date—is more environmentally and socially conscious, less materialistic, more community-minded and […] Read more »
Forget 2016. The Pivotal Year In Politics May Be 2020
… For all the folderol and fanciful talk swirling around 2016, the real sea change in national politics may come in the following election — when the nation will be undergoing an even more monumental makeover in its demographic composition. … Paul Taylor, director of the Social & Demographic Trends […] Read more »
The Formula: How the Gini Index came to define how we think about inequality
… The Gini renders what everyone has been talking about for the past couple of years—inequality—in terms of a single, elegant number. … It’s been so useful, so adaptable, that its strange history has survived only as a footnote: the coefficient was developed in 1912 by Corrado Gini, an Italian […] Read more »
Republicans Are Digging Their Own Graves
… As long as Republicans drive minority voters away, they will not be a nationally competitive party. … But the GOP’s problems aren’t just about race and ethnicity. … As someone who just turned 59, I can make this next provocative statement: Democrats are doing better among voters who can […] Read more »