Who’s Afraid of a White Minority?

NYT ^ | Aug. 30, 2018 | Thomas B. Edsall

[yesthatjallen]

The battle over how to project the future population of the United States has profound political implications.

The question of whether America will become a majority-minority nation — and when that might happen — is intensely disputed, of enormous political import and extraordinarily complex.

Two articles that appeared in the opinion section of The Times over the past few years made the case that misleading statistical artifacts used by the Census Bureau have increased the fear of a majority-minority America, a fear that played a crucial role in the 2016 election.

Both Richard Alba, of CUNY, in “The Myth of the White Minority,” and Herbert Gans, of Columbia, in “The Census and Right Wing Hysteria,” argued that questionable census classifications led to an undercount of America’s white majority. This anxiety over the decline of white hegemony, in turn, helped propel a segment of conservative voters to cast ballots for Donald Trump.

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[Will88]

Tyranny has not been limited to non-white nations.

Irrelevant since tyranny has existed in all parts of the world at various times, and for most of human history. We're talking about which nations found ways to move beyond that and recognize rights of individuals to freedom and self-determination in their lives.

You know the answers. You just want to pretend otherwise for some reason.

[BruceS]

You know the answers. You just want to pretend otherwise for some reason.

So we exchange a few responses and you know what I think?

Do you know what I am thinking about you now?

[Will88]

I don’t care what you’re thinking. Most people in the world know within which civilizations and nations governments that recognized human rights and freedom developed. If you don’t know, so be it.