Questions tagged [demographics]
Information about a given population. Use this tag to discuss population statistics
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Why doesn't the US Census consider Hispanic a race?
Since the 1970 Census the US Census has tracked Hispanic population under a separate question titled "Hispanic origin", saying "Hispanics may be of any race".
This doesn't make ...
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Is the Michigan congressional map adopted by the state's redistricting commission compliant with the VRA's majority-minority district requirement?
The map that was adopted in Michigan's congressional map seems to have reduced the black population in some districts in a way that looks like it may be a violation of federal law. I am specifically ...
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What explains Trump's gains with Latino voters in the 2020 US presidential election?
In almost every majority Hispanic county and electoral district, president Donald Trump gained against his 2016 presidential performance, though he lost almost all of these areas again, most by wide ...
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What framework is used for the ethnicity categories on the ACA Marketplace?
The standard categories used by USA governmental forms that ask for a voluntary disclosure of race or ethnicity include the following: Black or African American, White or Caucasian, American Indian or ...
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Ethnicity in the USA [closed]
As a European, I am confused about the use of names for ethnicities in the US. The background of my question is academic (I usually work with quantitative data on ethnicity on other continents, mostly ...
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Which countries forbid gathering certain ethnic/demographic data by the government?
France has a law forbidding the collection of sexual, ethnic, political, religuous, citizen information. Are there other nations where it is impossible to conduct a census or know information about ...
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What racial classifications systems are used for affirmative action in the Republic of South Africa?
Affirmative Action, in the context of race, ethnicity, etc. can cover a variety of measures such as
simple non-discrimination (depending on definitions this might not be classed as "affirmative ...
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What is the rationale for the United Kingdom statistics body not allowing black people to identify as having an English ethnicity in its surveys?
Ethnicity
The concept of ethnicity has been described by the UK's highest court in this way
For a group to constitute an ethnic group... it must, in my opinion, regard itself, and be regarded by ...
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Do American views on national racial issues fall among party lines when controlling for race?
Polls show that Democrats support "racial justice" ideas like equal prison sentences and slavery reparations at substantially higher rates than Republicans. For example, while reparations is ...
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Why do Republicans do relatively well with Asian Americans despite distinct ideological and non-racial demographic disdvantages?
On many issues from climate change to gun control, Asian Americans are the most likely to take left wing positions. In addition compared with the rest of the population, even when excluding White ...
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Do candidates with Hispanic/Asian sounding surnames get extra Democratic support in low-information non-partisan state/local US elections?
It is well known that there are partisan differences in different racial groups in the United States. There are also smaller differences in how men and women tend to vote. White Americans favor ...
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Why don't more people move to safe seats to run for office in the US?
Three out of eight US voters live in a congressional district represented by the opposite party of who they voted for for president. This figure is true for both Biden and Trump voters.
This makes you ...
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How does Israel decide what DNA is Jewish?
When a person claims to be ethnically Jewish and wants to make Aliyah Israel's immigration authorities may request a DNA test. See this and this.
However I cannot find the details of how it is decided ...
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How do vaccination rates compare between Israelis vs Palestinians in Israel?
Much has been made of the high and effective levels of vaccination in Israel - which has been seen as a lead country in the battle against Covid.
How do these levels vary between Israelis and ...
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Political & electoral fallout from low vaxx rates among Republicans? [closed]
CNN published an article yesterday that outlined how states with the lowest vaccination rates, highest case rates, and (critical to this question), highest death rates are all run by Republican ...
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What is the correlation between swing and change in votes cast from the 2016 to 2020 US presidential elections among major parties?
In the past, it was said that turnout benefits the Democratic Party because populations that tend to vote Democratic are underrepresented among actual voters relative to the voting eligible population ...
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Has there been any country that successfully reversed a demographic decline?
I've seen many news items about how some countries are experiencing demographic decline and have implemented so-and-so policies to counteract the decline, such as:
Latvia
China
Russia
Singapore
Japan
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Has the average voter for the Democratic party begun to shift towards higher income individuals?
In the 2020 House elections, as well as the 2018 midterm elections to a greater extent, the Democratic Party performed well in the wealthiest districts.
Democrats as well as many left wing parties ...
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Why are Democrats more geographically clustered?
One way I can demonstrate this to you is to go to this map. Try to find an area where Trump got less than 20% of the vote and then try to find one where Biden got less than 20%.
We can also see this ...
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Why does China still maintain an "#-child" policy?
China has recently announced the replacement of the Two-Child Policy with the Three-Child policy one.
The main reason is that 2020 had the lowest population growth rate in the last decades (about 0.15%...
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Are the Taliban Pashtun nationalists?
It is a well known fact that the groups composing the Taliban seek to obtain a Islamic emirate in compliance with Islamic laws; however, do they also seek to the foundation of a “Pashtunistan”, the ...
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Correlation between (household) median income and Democratic vote share?
I have read that wealthier states tend to vote Democratic while poorer states tend to vote Republican. There is data that backs this up. What is the correlation between statewide median incomes and 2 ...
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Why is Honolulu County less Democratic than the rest of the state?
One thing that is interesting about Hawaii politics is that while the state is solidly Democratic at every level, Hawaii has an interesting divide. Honolulu County is an urban county which is ...
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Do Kamala Harris's demographic characteristics hurt her approval? [closed]
Kamala Harris has consistently received lower favorabilities than Joe Biden. In a poll, a plurality of 52% approves of Biden with a net approval rating of 7 points while another plurality of 47% ...
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Is there research to support the claim that "expanding the electorate" is an unworkable strategy?
Bernie Sanders claimed that "expanding the electorate" is a viable strategy for winning the 2020 presidential election.
Even more importantly, they could prove Sanders’s theory of winning ...
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Is there any research about the number of people potentially affected by voting bills? [closed]
I've read that Texas and some other states are passing restrictive voting laws. Citation from Texas Tribune:
The bill includes proposals to ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting options like those ...
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Why hasn't Texas become a Democratic stronghold the way California has despite similar demographic characteristics?
Texas and California have somewhat similar demographic characteristics. They have:
A large Hispanic population
Younger than average populations
White individuals only make up slightly under 1 out of ...
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Why is NPR's audience so heavily "White" demographically especially given its ideological positions?
I came across an article titled "The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being NPR." It said this:
First the facts: NPR is very, very white: At about 77 percent white, its newsroom is significantly ...
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Why are Democrats relatively strong with rural areas in Michigan and Wisconsin?
People have wondered why Democrats are generally so strong in Vermont despite the state's history and having hostile demographics for Democrats. I found something interesting though less extreme, and ...
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"Shut out" districts in 2021's NYC Republican mayoral primary -- how did they vote in the Democratic primary and 2020 presidential race combined?
Looking at the 2021 mayoral election, I have seen more shut-out precincts in the NYC mayoral primary than in other elections in this city. I understand there are caveats to talking about the shut out ...
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Why does it seem like Hispanic voting patterns are shaped by a state's political standing in the United States?
I have noticed something interesting. It seems that Latinos seem to vote differently based on where they live. I'm not talking about what country they are from but where they live.
For example ...
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What explains the sharp drop-off in Republican vote share vs the 2020 presidential election in the 2021 NYC mayor primary?
Here are the primary results screenshotted from RRH Elections:
This same precinct cast 57 votes for Trump compared to 326 for Biden per NYTimes, and it swung 23 points towards the former president:
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Is there a new divide between college & noncollege with *non* white voters in the US?
College graduated voters have been said to be trending towards the Democrats and the opposite with non college individuals. But that discussion seems to be isolated to white voters.
I have seen ...
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How "red or blue" is each state by self described partisan identification per CCES?
When we think about how Democratic or Republican a state is, we usually think of how it votes for President and (usually) Senate. But that is a rather shallow look, as there are people who call ...
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Why did NYC swing towards Trump more than surrounding demographically similar area? [closed]
The combined results of the 5 boroughs of NYC had a swing towards former president Donald Trump of about 9 percentage points. However, the combined results of Hudson Union and Essex counties in New ...
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Why is the western portion of the USA moving towards the Democratic Party while the Midwest is moving towards the GOP?
A lot has been made of the former president Donald Trump's narrow upset wins in three Rust Belt states which won him the presidency. This was part of a long term trend that continued into 2020, as I ...
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Why isn't Louisiana a swing state given its high black population?
In the 2020 presidential election Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff, and Raphael Warnock became the first Democrats to win Georgia.
However, Louisiana, a state with about the same percentage of black population, ...
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Are female police officers one-sixth as likely to kill as their male colleagues?
The incidence of people dying due to use of force by the police is a high profile issue at the moment. Figures about the distribution of these deaths, such as found in this paper, can be compared to ...
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What explains the Democratic shift among nonwhites since and relative to 2020's presidential election?
In the 2020 presidential election, Trump made news after reports based on exit polls & actual election data showed his performance with minority voters being the second best of the modern era, ...
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Can Democrats ask/sue for more majority minority seats?
I was thinking about redistricting after the 2020 census.
I was thinking specifically about the Deep South. I think what they could ask for is to draw extra black majority seats in multiple states ...
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Is there a correlation between a county's swing towards Democrats from 2004-2020 and increase in minority population?
In 2020's presidential election, it was shown that Joe Biden lost support from nonwhite voters, most of whom were ideologically conservative.
However, he not only still won this voting group, but he ...
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Why did postal voting favour Joe Biden so much?
In the recent US presidential election, there were several states which looked almost certain wins for Donald Trump until the postal votes were counted, after which there was a huge swing towards Joe ...
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Is the Republican Party on the decline due to the voting patterns of young voters? [closed]
I've seen a lot of questions lately asking if the Republican Party is on the decline. Most people who ask this question focus on the fact that White Anglos are expected to become a minority in a few ...
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Why did incumbent House Democrats seem to outperform Biden among Hispanics?
It has come to my attention that Biden has underperformed Democrats' usual margins with Hispanic voters. He won their votes (as a group, remember: Hispanics are not a monolith and come from different ...
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Does this image represent interstate migration?
I was reading through Twitter and came across this image. It showed states that shifted Republican and Democrat from 2012 to 2020.
This is not your ordinary red state, blue state map. But it is a map ...
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Did the Republican shift among Hispanic voters come entirely from Florida and the Rio Grande Valley?
In 2016, exit polls showed Clinton getting 70% of the two-party Latino vote but Biden only got 67%. I looked at the exit polls for Florida and the data for the RGV and found that the vote share for ...
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Who is the oldest parliamentarian (legislator) on record?
In the US, there are at least three parliamentarians (two Senators and one in the House of Representatives) who are 87 years old. Are there even older people who serve or served in such positions ...
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What accounts for the Republican shift in Appalachia?
I was reading through county level swings in presidential elections. I found one area that has been consistently trending Republican: Appalachia and some (other) rural areas in the eastern half of the ...
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Where can I find data on US party affiliations, broken down geographically?
Where can I find data on US party affiliations, broken down geographically?
I'd like to do some statistical analysis on party affiliations within states, broken down geographically.
Here's the kicker: ...
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Correlation between 538's urbanization index and vote margin 2020?
538 did an article about the urban-rural divide. It said that in 2016, the correlation between urbanization and Dem voting was 0.69 in 2016 and 0.55 in 2012. (There was one big exception: Vermont.)
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