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> Is it fair to say that both sides see the primary issue as demographic change? (Right: illegal immigration. Left: transition to majority-minority society.) W

• rectang 8y ago
  "Majority-minority" means a population where no one group is more than 50%. Alternately, a population where two minorities combine to form more than 50% (which is a mathematically equivalent formulation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority The progressive narrative holds that inevitable demographic change in the wider US will eventually yield electoral and policy victory, similar to what has happened in California.
  • tropo 8y ago
    They are not mathematically equivalent. Counterexample: 10 groups, each with 10% of the population, qualifies under your first definition but not under your second definition.
    • rectang 8y ago
      You're right, I was imprecise. Here's the Wikipedia definition: a jurisdiction where one or more racial and/or ethnic minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population
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