Blog #19

In An Eternal Revolution, Orlando Patterson writes about the "struggle of black Americans to be incorporated in the public sphere." He also stated that women and the young have been somewhat excluded and are now more involved. Some other groups he could have mentioned was Native Americans, Hispanics, or Asians. According to Chair Rodriguez a record number of Americans participated in the 08 election.

The process of including one specific group of people into the overall voting population in America is as follows:

• Find the percentage of the overall population of the specific group.
• Find if the majority is Democrat or Republican.
• Then find the recent or past voting records for the majority of the group.

All these groups were excluded in political decisions just 100-200 years ago. Now a large portion of voters are included in these groups and we have the first black president. I agree with an article I read about how it swept away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.