Youth Vote

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Perhaps the ground is fertile for a new party to emerge and soak up youth voters.

Not really.

Well, why not? Here's some data indicating that it could be possible for a new approach to be successful with young people. In addition, a nuclear bomb was dropped on US politics a month ago today. It's gonna have major consequences, maybe it changes the game a bit for 2020.

Most politically active young people will use the Democratic Party as their tool through which they will air their grievances with the political system. Watch out for the 2020 Democratic primary! It's gonna get wild folks.

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Most politically active young people will use the Democratic Party as their tool through which they will air their grievances with the political system. Watch out for the 2020 Democratic primary! It's gonna get wild folks.

Well, maybe. We have a loooong way to go until 2020. And even if that's true - a split could easily emerge which leaves some unsatisfied and looking for another option.

[Pennsylvania Deplorable]

Children of a hispanic and a white parent will simply be classified as Hispanic by the census bureau because hispanic heritage is a separate question from race. While most hispanics are themselves mixed (mestizo and mulatto really ought to be racial categories on the census and the current question eliminated), many hispanics are white and white hispanics are far more likely to marry non-hispanic whites than mestizos are. Thus, you'll see an increasing number of whites who still are considered hispanic by the government (75% German and 25% white Cuban will still be called hispanic and lumped in with mestizos). White hispanics are more likely to be republican than other hispanics, and often don't speak Spanish well, if at all. Classifying them as being more similar to a native Mesoamerican than an Italian just makes no sense racially or politically.

The census is adding a Middle Eastern/North African category (finally) in 2020. Maybe they'll fix this in 2030.