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Not only that, they're really old.

No.

They're older than that.

Actually, neither party accurately represents the ethnic breakdown of the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

The U.S. population's racial distribution in 2006 was as follows:[19]

* Total population: 299 million
* White alone (including White Hispanic): 74% or 221.3 million
* Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
* American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.68% or 2.0 million
* Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
* Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone: 0.14% or 0.43 million
* Some other race alone: 6.5% or 19 million
* Two or more races: 2.0% or 6.1 million

I noticed more asians than blacks there. Are they less than a percent?

oh, STFU John.

Is that 2000 stats?

News flash - in 2000, Washington state had HALF the percentage of Hispanic population it does in 2008.

Will - Try reading the post before you tell someone to shut the fuck up.

HE SAID IT WAS 2006 NUMBERS!

Dumbass.

How terribly shocking in lieu of an African-American presidential nominee.

By my count it looks like the Democratic party is a pretty white party too...

The black delegate count for the Rethuglicans was a forty year low. Low for Hispanics, too, especially considering how much outreach they've tried to do (and then undermined with their kook nativism). The Republicans are moving whiteward while the country is moving towards color.

Enjoy your forty years in the wilderness, assholes; no one's ever deserved it more.

Anyone know what the deal was with the lady that was kicked out of the convention? MSNBC kept flashing over to security dragging out some lady during Palin's speech.

CNN showed a number of black people in the crowd over the evening, but after a while I started to notice they were showing the same people.

Almost as white as Capitol Hill.

what percentage is charles plus two guys who deliver the papers divided by the rest of the stranger staff?

I found slightly different numbers for that '06 consensus (also on Wikipedia), take from it what you will...

White 68%
African American 12.8%
Asian 4.4%
Native American and Alaskan Native 1.0%
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Multiracial 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 14.8%

Either way, dems take the cake for that one I must say-And with such a small number of blacks at the convention there sure were a lot of close ups of teary eyed African Americans, and I was watching PBS.

I thought it was racist to conduct tallies of folks based on skin-color and not on the content of the character.

Didn't some pol get into hot water recently for flat out saying that the GOP is a "white Party"? I can't remember who that was, but he/she was browbeaten into shutting up about it, and therefore whatever their point was, was made irrelevant.

If not a politically correct thing to say it seems like it was factually correct.