Majority-Minority Myths | Dissent Magazine
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream by Richard Alba Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American⨠Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp. In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white people would no longer constitute a majority in the United States. In the decades since, the idea th...