Analysis: Republicans are disproportionately worried about America’s changing demographic composition
Subway passengers enter the Roosevelt Avenue station, on Dec.18 in New York's Jackson Heights neighborhood. It is considered one of the most diverse communities in the United States, with more than 160 languages being spoken.
In a new study asking Americans for their thoughts about where the country will be in 30 years, Pew Research Center asked specifically about those two changes: What will it mean to have a majority of the country that’s made up of racial and ethnic minorities, and what will it mean if the over-65 population is larger than the under 18 population?
It’s worth interjecting quickly to note that the Republican Party is itself less diverse than the country, according to past Pew research. The Democratic Party has been diversifying more rapidly. The GOP is actually less racially and ethnically diverse now than the Democratic Party was during the Clinton administration.
It brings to mind a recent PRRI poll conducted with The Atlantic. That survey asked respondents what it meant to be “truly American.” More than 6-in-10 Republicans said it meant being born in America. A quarter of Republicans said it meant being of Western European heritage — which is to say, white.
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