Thursday, September 04, 2008

In a More Diverse America, the GOP Convention Mostly White

washingtonpost.com Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern.

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