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Demography Is Not Destiny<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a>
\n2021-08-20<\/p>\n

Adam Serwer<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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\nJan Hanus \/ Alamy; Paul Spella \/ The Atlantic<\/small><\/p>\n

New numbers provide a reminder of the fluidity of American identity.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the more racist corners of the mainstream right, the 2020 census findings<\/a> that the white American population has declined are cause for panic.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are intentionally accelerating demographic change in this country for political advantage,\u201d the Fox News host Tucker Carlson insisted on Friday<\/a>, treating the results as confirmation of this conspiracy theory. \u201cRather than convince people to vote for them\u2014that\u2019s called democracy\u2014they\u2019re counting on brand-new voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson, it\u2019s worth noting, has it wrong\u2014voters who are not white are no less persuadable than those who are. If Republicans want to win over those constituencies, nothing is stopping them beyond their own nativism<\/a>. And any read of the census results that assumes the growing diversity of the United States<\/a> will simply redound to one party\u2019s benefit is likely mistaken.<\/p>\n

Political parties and identities are not static, and few concepts are as elastic as the invention of race, in particular the category of \u201cwhite,\u201d which is defined not just by looks and ancestry, but also by ideology and class. The fact that fewer Americans identify as white in the 2020 census than did 10 years before does not spell doom for the Republican Party, nor does it herald an era of political dominance for the Democrats, despite the forlorn cries of those who are committed less to conservatism as an ideology than the political and cultural hegemony of those they consider white<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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