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New York Times: Persistent Disparities Between Leaders and the Led

October 8, 2014

Alan Rappeport explores our 2014 data report and public opinion research, showing that white men are extremely over-represented in politics, and that voters do not approve of white male minority rule.

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Ronald Reagan once said that ‘a state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens,’ but new demographic research shows that these days that is hardly the case, if it ever was.

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