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What will it take to make democracy more representative?

Democracy Works

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Women's Underrepresentation in Communities of Color

LZ Granderson: I have heard of this sort of wishful, magical thinking. He says people think that women of color are just going to be more acceptable to white majority districts. LZ: While it is true that there are some candidates in a very small percentage of races who do, you know, who are people of color who run and win in majority white districts. But for Latinos, less than 1% of all the thousands of races I looked at in my data set. It's very, very rare.

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