Ebook: Brown is the new white: how the demographic revolution has created a new American majority
Author: Phillips Steve
- Tags: Demography--Political aspects, Demography--Political aspects--United States, Minorities--Political activity, Minorities--Political activity--United States, Political participation, Political participation--United States, Race--Political aspects, Race--Political aspects--United States, Minorities -- Political activity -- United States, Race -- Political aspects -- United States, Demography -- Political aspects -- United States, Political participation -- United States, United States -- Politics and governmen
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: The New Press
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
- epub
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
Despite the abundant evidence from Obama's victories proving that the U.S. population has fundamentally changed, many progressives and Democrats continue to waste millions of dollars chasing white swing voters. Explosive population growth of people of color in America over the past fifty years has laid the foundation for a New American Majority consisting of progressive people of color (23 percent of all eligible voters) and progressive whites (28 percent of all eligible voters). These two groups make up 51 percent of all eligible voters in America right now, and that majority is growing larger every day. Failing to properly appreciate this reality, progressives are at risk of missing this moment in history—and losing.
A leader in national politics for thirty years, Steve Phillips has had a front-row seat to these extraordinary political changes. A civil rights lawyer and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress,...