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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 30, 2020, 2:13 am
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 1, 2020, 10:30 pm
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HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/asian-americans-georgia-senate/2020/11/28/28521068-2ad2-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html
[quote]Georgia’s hand recount and vote certification confirmed
that Asian American and Pacific Islander voters — who make up
the fastest-growing demographic in Georgia — helped swing the
state for the Democrats for the first time since 1992.
While AAPI voters comprise only about 4 percent of Georgia’s
population, that amounts to roughly 238,000 eligible voters,
more than enough to determine races in the narrowly divided
state. Georgia saw a 91 percent increase in AAPI voter turnout
over 2016, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm
TargetSmart, and exit polls showed Asian American voters
preferred Joe Biden to President Trump by 2 to 1.
Strong turnout among Latino and Black voters also contributed to
Biden’s win, in Georgia and across the country. But the
near-doubling of turnout among Asian American voters — who
historically have had some of the lowest turnout nationally —
suggests a far-reaching change that could resonate for decades.
That change also played out in swing states like Arizona,
Michigan and Nevada, where changing demographics and rapidly
diversifying suburbs are reconfiguring the political map. In
every battleground state, the AAPI community increased its
turnout more than any other group, and in Georgia and Arizona,
traditionally red states that went for Biden, the vote was
decided by a margin that was less than the increase in AAPI
voters, TargetSmart noted.
“We are that new electorate,” said Stephanie Cho, executive
director of the Atlanta chapter of Asian Americans Advancing
Justice. “Us along with Black women voters, along with Latino
voters, along with young people, really have changed the
trajectory of what Georgia looks like.”
...
Progressive organizers say the surge of AAPI votes helped
Democrats retake a U.S. House seat in the 7th Congressional
District, where Carolyn Bourdeaux won by fewer than 9,000 votes.
That was the only seat in the country that Democrats flipped
this year, other than two in North Carolina that were reshaped
by redistricting.
A similar transformation was evident in the five-person Gwinnett
County Board of Commissioners, which went from being all-White
and all-Republican in 2016 to an entirely Democratic commission
this year, consisting of four Black members and one Asian
American.[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 3, 2020, 10:27 pm
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[quote]Mamdani is one of three South Asian members of the
Democratic Socialists of America who won historic down-ballot
races earlier this month. In Pennsylvania, former magazine
editor Nikil Saval became the first Asian American elected to
the state Senate. And in Los Angeles, urban planner Nithya Raman
will be the first Asian American women elected to city council.
As first-time Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed
candidates, they unseated Democratic incumbents while espousing
progressive policies such as "Medicare for All," the Green New
Deal and defunding the police.
Their wins point to the growing prominence of young South Asians
on the left, many of whom, in the past half-decade, have
transitioned from community activism to electoral politics.
“These candidates are successful not only because of the work
they’ve done in South Asian communities,” Abdullah Younus, a
member of the Democratic Socialists of America's national
leadership body, said, “but also because the issues that they’re
campaigning on — around housing, education and climate — cut
across age divides and diaspora divides.”[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 8, 2020, 10:43 pm
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Now is a good time to resume the push for abolishing the
Electoral College:
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First Native American Cabinet Secretary in American History
By: guest5 Date: December 18, 2020, 12:37 am
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[quote]President-elect Joe Biden has selected Rep. Deb Haaland
(D-NM) to lead the Department of the Interior, the Washington
Post reports. If confirmed, Haaland would become the first
Native American Cabinet secretary in American history.
Haaland, a first-term congresswoman, is an enrolled member of
the Pueblo of Laguna and also has Jemez Pueblo heritage, and she
has broken barriers before in her political career. Haaland
became the first Native American woman to be elected to lead a
state party, becoming the chair of the Democratic Party of New
Mexico in 2015. During her time as party chair, she went to
Standing Rock to stand alongside those protesting the Dakota
Access Pipeline. In 2018, Haaland was elected to the House of
Representatives; she was one of the first two Native American
women to do so, alongside Sharice Davids (D-KS), an enrolled
member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
‘I stand here today, a proud 35th generation New Mexican,’
Haaland said during her speech at this summer's DNC, where she
reflected on the mistreatment and abuse suffered by Indigenous
populations in America, often at the hands of the government.
‘My people survived centuries of slavery, genocide, and brutal
assimilation policies. But throughout our past, tribal nations
have fought for and helped build this country... I’m a symbol of
our resilience as the embodiment of America’s progress as a
nation.’
As head of the Department of the Interior, Haaland would oversee
an agency of approx 70,000 people dedicated to the management
and conservation of the nation’s federal lands and will likely
play a key role in advancing the Biden administration’s efforts
to boost land conservation, protect natural resources, and work
towards a carbon-free power sector by 2035. If confirmed,
Haaland’s leadership will likely present an about-face for the
department, which, under Trump, has moved to undo protections
for large swaths of federal lands and has even moved to open up
protected lands like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil
and gas drilling and extraction.[/quote]
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Biden picks first Native American as Cabinet secretary, source
says
[quote]Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico has been picked
to be Biden’s interior secretary, a source says. If confirmed,
she would become the first Native American Cabinet
secretary.[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 18, 2020, 10:22 pm
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HTML https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/15/black-eligible-voters-have-accounted-for-nearly-half-of-georgia-electorates-growth-since-2000/
[quote]Prominent public figures such as Democrat Stacey Abrams,
a former lawmaker who lost a close race for governor in 2018,
have highlighted Georgia’s racial and ethnic diversification as
a major driver behind Joe Biden’s victory.
Biden won the state by a very narrow margin of just 0.2%, with
about 12,000 votes more than Donald Trump. But it was the first
time a Democratic presidential candidate had won the state in
nearly three decades.
In 2019, the Black voting population in Georgia reached a record
high of 2.5 million eligible voters, making up a third of the
state’s total electorate. As a share of eligible voters in the
state overall, Black voters saw a 5 percentage point increase
between 2000 and 2019. This was the highest growth rate of any
racial or ethnic group in Georgia – and also the largest
percentage point increase among Black voters in any state in the
country.
The Hispanic and Asian American voting populations in Georgia
have also grown significantly, more than tripling in size
between 2000 and 2019. However, these groups accounted for much
smaller shares of the state’s electorate, 5% and 3%,
respectively. The number of White voters in the state also grew
during this time, but at a lower rate than other major racial
and ethnic groups. As a result, the White share of Georgia’s
eligible voters declined by 11 points, though the group still
accounted for the majority (58%) of Georgia’s electorate in
2019.[/quote]
Will it be enough to get us the senate seats also?
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 22, 2020, 11:25 pm
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HTML https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-votes-reparations-gerrymandering/
[quote]Black votes in this country are worth less than white
votes. Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters
in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in
significant numbers. But even with overwhelming Black support—94
percent of Detroit voted for Biden!—the outcomes in Georgia,
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.
One core problem is the Electoral College. Wyoming, which has
just 580,000 residents and is 93 percent white, gets three
electors because of its two senators and one representative in
the House. By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional
District—which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is
58 percent Black—has no dedicated electors or senators and can
only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative
votes from elsewhere in the state. This devaluation of Black
votes allows our political system to ignore Black lives, and the
consequences are devastating. Unequal representation has led to
unequal health care outcomes, which the Covid-19 pandemic has
only worsened. Without sufficient voting power, Black
communities receive substandard education, and politicians are
free to appoint judges who sanction mass incarceration, abusive
policing, and electoral disenfranchisement.
This is all by design. The Constitution’s framers set up the
Electoral College to protect the interests of slave states.
Along with the Senate, the Electoral College was critical in the
endurance of slavery and its continuation by other means.
Abolishing this system would mean that ballots cast by Black
voters—or any voters, for that matter—would count the same.
But there’s another way to undo the damage of the Electoral
College and other structurally racist political institutions: We
can implement vote reparations by double-counting ballots cast
by all Black residents. The poisonous legacy of slavery applies
to Black people regardless of when we or our ancestors arrived
in this country. Vote reparations should also extend to Native
Americans. Slavery is rightly called America’s original sin, but
so too was the United States’ genocidal seizure of land from its
original inhabitants. Various legal forms of disenfranchisement
have applied to them. It wasn’t until 1962 that all Native
Americans were allowed to vote, and even then they faced—and
still face—electoral obstacles. These are not the only examples
of American oppression; we should include in vote reparations
others who have suffered similar disenfranchisement.
One of the largest objections to monetary reparations is the
impracticality of implementing them on a scale that would
meaningfully address the injustices. Vote reparations, in
contrast, would be a simple, low-cost way to begin to make
amends.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 8, 2021, 12:15 am
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I support this:
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[quote]On Thursday, Bowser went further, calling once again for
Congress to make the city its own government, with the same
representation in the Senate and House afforded to the 50
states.
“Washingtonians have waited over 200 years for the
representation we deserve as American citizens,” the mayor said
in her statement.
...
White supremacy has historically shaped residential segregation
in the district, said Amaka Okechukwu, an assistant professor on
conflict and race at George Mason University in nearby Fairfax,
Virginia.
“The federal government’s refusal to grant D.C. statehood has
functioned as a mass political disenfranchisement of primarily
African American residents,” said Okechukwu.
...
Nicole Holliday, 33, lives in Columbia Heights, a diverse
neighborhood a few miles away from the violence at the Capitol.
She made sure to walk her dog before 6 p.m. Wednesday when the
curfew went into effect because she said she wasn't sure what
would happen after dark and if the mob spread throughout the
city.
"You don't want the Proud Boys outside your house," Holliday
said.
As a Black woman, she said she was not surprised at all that the
riot occurred.
"When they waltzed into the Capitol like they owned it, they
were because they act like they own it. They think they own it,"
she said.
Holliday also saw the stark distinction between how people were
treated by police on Wednesday compared to Black protesters over
the summer during Black Lives Matter protests, when mostly
peaceful demonstrators were greeted with armed law enforcement
officers, tear gas and state-sanctioned violence.
"If these people were Black, they would be dead before they got
to the building," she said.
...
"I don't think that people that don't live in the District
realize how frustrating it is that you don't have control over
what happens in your everyday life," she said. "The idea of D.C.
statehood is not just theoretical for us."[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 11, 2021, 12:58 am
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 11, 2021, 11:16 pm
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HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-political-power.html
[quote]We Need a Second Great Migration
...
Simply put, my proposition was this: that Black people reverse
the Great Migration — the mass migration of millions of
African-Americans largely from the rural South to cities
primarily in the North and West that spanned from 1916 to 1970.
That they return to the states where they had been at or near
the majority after the Civil War, and to the states where Black
people currently constitute large percentages of the population.
...
In South Carolina, the Black share of the population declined
from 55 percent to about 30 percent. Over six decades, six
million people left the South.
Reversing that tide would create dense Black communities, and
that density would translate into statewide political power.
...
In November, Georgia voted blue for the first time since Bill
Clinton won the state in 1992. A majority of those who voted for
Joe Biden were Black. This week, Georgia elected its first Black
senator in state history — indeed the first popularly elected
Democratic Black senator from the whole South: Raphael Warnock
...
The success of the Democratic Party’s gains there were in part
due to a massive voter enfranchisement effort led by Stacey
Abrams, the former candidate for governor, whose group Fair
Fight helped register 800,000 new voters in the state in just
two years. But it was also attributable to a rise in the state’s
Black population.
In the early 1990s, Black people constituted a little over a
quarter of the population; now they constitute about a third of
it. The Atlanta metro area saw an increase of 251,000 Black
people between 2010 and 2016. In 2018, The Atlantic magazine
described this area as the “epicenter of what demographers are
calling the ‘reverse Great Migration’” of Black people to the
South.
...
Of course questions — and doubts — abound about such a proposal.
Questions like: Isn’t the proposal racist on its face?
No. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but
to remove an existing one. Race, as we have come to understand
it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it,
is a fact. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to
overturn white supremacy, it has fallen to Black people to do it
themselves.
...
White people outside the South are more likely to say the right
words, but many possess the same bigotry. Racism is everywhere.
And if that’s the case, wouldn’t you rather have some real
political power to address that racism?
...
“If you change the South, you change the entire nation.” This is
not surprising coming from Barber, whose own parents were
reverse migrants who moved back South to fight racism.
All these objections are to say nothing of the backlash to come
from conservatives, of course. One lesson that history teaches
is that the system reacts forcefully, often violently, when
whiteness faces the threat of a diminution of its power. And
that’s exactly what we saw in this week’s storming of the
Capitol by supporters of the white power president Donald J.
Trump, in concert with his efforts to overturn the election.
For 150 years, Black Americans have been hoping and waiting. We
have marched and resisted. Many of our most prominent leaders
have appeased and kowtowed. We have seen our hard-earned gains
eroded by an evolving white supremacy, while at the same time we
have been told that true and full equality was imminent. But,
there is no more guarantee of that today than there was a
century ago.
I say to Black people: Return to the South, cast down your
anchor and create an environment in which racial oppression has
no place.[/quote]
With that said, while calculated redistributive migration within
the US to flip key states from Red to Blue (while being careful
not to flip other states from Blue to Red in the process!) is a
good idea, this is ultimately no substitute for immigration from
outside the US into the US to secure Blue power.
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