{"id":14409,"date":"2012-11-11T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-11T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:11:11","slug":"Face-of-US-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14409","title":{"rendered":"Face of US changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded in the fine print of birth and death rates, immigration statistics and census charts for years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

America is rapidly getting more diverse, and, more gradually, so is its electorate.<\/p>\n

Nonwhites made up 28 percent of the electorate this year, compared with 20 percent in 2000.<\/strong> Much of that growth is coming from Hispanics.<\/p>\n

The trend has worked to the advantage of President Obama two elections in a row now and is not lost on Republicans poring over the details of Tuesday’s results.<\/p>\n

Obama captured a commanding 80 percent of the growing ranks of nonwhite voters in 2012, just as he did in 2008. Republican Mitt Romney won 59 percent of non-Hispanic whites.<\/p>\n

Romney couldn’t win even though he dominated among white men and outperformed 2008 nominee John McCain with that group. It’s an ever-shrinking slice of the electorate and of America writ large.<\/strong><\/p>\n

White men made up 34 percent of the electorate this year, down from 46 percent in 1972.<\/p>\n

“The new electorate is a lagging indicator of the next America,”<\/strong> says Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center. “We are midpassage in a century-long journey from the middle of the last century, when we were nearly a 90 percent white nation, to the middle of this coming century, when we will be a majority minority nation.”<\/p>\n

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