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Friday, December 14, 2012

Architecture Our Coming New Plural World Order

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:46 AM

We are only three decades away from an America that is perfectly plural...

Within three decades, there will no longer be a majority racial or ethnic group in the Unites States according to new Census Bureau projections released this week. Among the other findings: the country is growing slower than expected.
Michael Cooper reports on the first set of projections issued by the Census Bureau based on the 2010 Census results. “The next half century marks key points in continuing trends — the U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white population remains the largest single group, but no group is in the majority,” the bureau’s acting director, Thomas L. Mesenbourg, said in a statement.

By looking at the Dem party as a whole and examining the voting patterns of the 2011 election, one can see Obama's present presidency as something like a projection from this quickly approaching future.

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Not counting assholes. There's always the asshole majority to consider.

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on December 14, 2012 at 9:03 AM

There will be one solid majority: Old people.

Posted by tkc on December 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM

White people will still control the majority of the money.

Posted by Asparagus! on December 14, 2012 at 9:32 AM

Perhaps another ethnicity will assimilate into whiteness?

Posted by samktg on December 14, 2012 at 9:48 AM

Yet if people don't smarten up and start voting progressive values in every election and for every office, the president will be chosen by a majority of congressional districts and that means Republican, even if the total popular vote is heavily Democratic.

Most of those swing states that went for Obama in terms of the electoral college still ended up with R majorities in the national state legislatures and the governors' offices, sometimes sending THREE TIMES as many R congressmen to Washington, despite Democratic majorities in the aggregate.

Here, have a quick snack courtesy of Mother Jones, and if you've got a bit more time, watch Maddow on the same subject:

http://www.motherjones.com/print/206481

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#50…

(Re: Maddow, she starts by talking about telemedicine, but keep watching.)

Posted by rob!