Lucius,The "Citizens 18 and older" designation is a profound (if temporary) barrier to minority and immigrant political expression, being that Whites are generally older and generally have citizenship. But perhaps I overstated my thesis.One component of my proposition that America is managing to be far more politically White than it is demographically White is the impact of our "Winner takes all" bipartisan framework. As things remain right now, the politically amplified "swing voters" are still overwhelmingly White, and the government largely reflects that.I wasn't capable of expressing that quantitatively so I left it out. |