On AlterNet: demographics

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "demographics"

Demographic Trends Favor Democrats In Years Ahead

Dylan Scott, Governing.com. April 18, 2012.

More immigrant, minority, and young voters and a growing liberal tilt among educated Americans mean good news for the Democrats' future.

Why Are Conservatives Scared of Cameron Diaz?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 24, 2011.

"White Hispanics" are white people who trace their origins to Spain, and they're the reason reports of America's coming "white minority" status are 100-percent wrong.

Why Fearmongering About a White Minority in America Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 19, 2010.

Those obsessed with Northern European 'racial purity' will be in the minority, but they already are.

Arizona's Immigration Law: a Modern Expression of Manifest Destiny

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. June 18, 2010.

These Arizona laws are part of a spasmodic reaction to the "browning of America."

10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 12, 2010.

These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night.

Pockets of White America Are in the Throes of an Existential Crisis

Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. December 19, 2009.

As the Census "time bomb" ticks, fear mounts over a perceived loss of whites' raw power - demographic, social, economic, and political.

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.

Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".

Those Stories About Religious Groups Taking Over the World with Birth Rates Are for Suckers

Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 14, 2009.

Many have fallen sway to demographically data about cultural or religious birth rates -- here's why it's a fool's game.

Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'

Lewis Beale, Miller-McCune.com. October 7, 2009.

Some of the fastest-growing areas in America are also the most Caucasian -- author Rich Benjamin's new book explores the new establishment of white ghettos.

Dems Have a Huge Day with Latinos

* Staff, AlterNet. July 28, 2009.

Republican strategists realize the party has little hope of winning a national election without a dramatic improvement among that growing voter group.

Obama's Latino Mandate

Steve Cobble, Joe Velasquez, The Nation. November 20, 2008.

Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.

White Boomer Women Dropping Support for Obama

Matt Stoller, Open Left. May 30, 2008.

White women over 50 are proving to be Clinton's loyal base.

Reagan Democrats Are Not Coming Back

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon. May 27, 2008.

How do you win a demographic that votes against it's economic interests?

More Than Marches: Growing Latino Power is all About the Demographics

Joshua Hoyt, AlterNet. May 12, 2008.

62 percent of the recent growth in the Latino population has been through births, not immigration.