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 that growing diversity will bring about a âmajority-minorityâ America in the near future has become a widespread belief across the ideological spectrum, propelled by periodic Census updates, like a report that 2013 marked the first year that more nonwhite babies had been born in the United States than white ones.