Will This Be the Last Time?

[SecularMotion]

For all the talk about South Carolina and Nevada and all the rest, Iowa and New Hampshire still play a massive, massive role in the presidential selection process. The generally accurate conventional wisdom is that Iowa has extremely conservative conservatives and extremely liberal liberals. I was just hearing some pundit on TV explaining how Iowa's conservatives are more weighted towards evangelicals while New Hampshire's have a more libertarian hue. All true, as far as it goes. But there's one overwhelming reality about these two states: everybody is white.

Not everybody, of course. But pretty close. Let's look at the numbers.

According to 2014 Census estimates, African-Americans made up 3.4% of the population in Iowa. Hispanics made up 5.6% of the population. Asians were 2.2%. In the country as a whole these three groups make up 36% of the population! In Iowa they amount to barely more than 10% of the population.

New Hampshire manages to be whiter still. African-Americans: 1.5%, Hispanics 3.3%, Asians 2.4%. So 7.2% vs 36% in the country at large.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-this-be-the-last-time

[NurseJackie]

1. Very interesting statistics. Thanks for posting this.

This is something that's obviously being overlooked by many of Bernie's fans. (If not "overlooked" then it's being intentionally ignored.) I'm not entirely sure which one it may be, but what I am sure of is that neither one will change the facts.