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Commentary: Realignment and Race in the Anglosphere

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 Admin

Two national elections, one decisive and the other a cliffhanger, have shaken the politics of the West to its core. In the United Kingdom, just last month, Conservative candidate Boris Johnson won a resolute victory for himself and his party. In the United States, barely three years ago, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election in a stunning upset where he narrowly lost the popular vote but logged a solid victory in the Electoral College.

Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats, Study Finds

December 26, 2019December 25, 2019 Admin

A new analysis finds that immigration will dramatically reshape the Electoral College map in favor of the Democratic Party after completion of the 2020 census.

Commentary: Demographics and the American Prospect

December 5, 2019December 4, 2019 Admin

In the summer of 2018, journalist Vivian Yee amused herself with the thought that Orange Country, California, was once an agricultural, “conservative (think Richard Nixon and the John Birch Society) and white (very, very white),” slice of America. But “Chinese and Korean immigrants, and Asian-Americans from other states,” she wrote on the eve of the midterm election, “have made Irvine nearly half Asian.”

Commentary: Demographics Is Not Destiny

June 22, 2019June 21, 2019 Admin

by Edward Ring A special election is scheduled for September 10 in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District to replace former incumbent Walter Jones, the long-serving Republican who died earlier this year. The district is solidly Republican. Jones earned twice as many votes as his Democratic challenger in nearly every…

Colorado Uses ‘Side-Door’ Tactic to Appoint Unelected Officials to State Legislature

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 Anna Marie Bolton

Iman Jodeh is hoping to be selected to fill a Colorado Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Daniel Kagan, who resigned as an investigation was heating up about his repeated use of the women’s rest room in the State Capitol. Jodeh, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants who was born and…

Generation Z: The Intolerant Ones

August 2, 2018August 1, 2018 Admin

by Ben Cohen The post-millennials have arrived. As the oldest millennials turn 37, demographers have designated a new generation for those born after 1996, Generation Z. The oldest members of this cohort just graduated from college and had their first (legal) alcoholic beverages. As they wind their way through college, post-millennials…

Older Adults Will Outnumber the Young for the First Time

March 15, 2018March 15, 2018 Admin

“The 2030s are projected to be a transformative decade for the U.S. population,” said a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday. That’s putting it mildly. Based in part on data from the 2010 census, the report is projecting three core changes for the 2030 decade — and…