BROWN IS THE NEW WHITE: BOOK REVIEW

Brown Is The New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority is an important book. The book's author, Steve Phillips, gets right to the point by showing how diverse groups in America are now the new majority. He puts the 2040 date  for brown people to account the majority of the population as useless. Instead, Phillips shows how that day is already here.

The author points out that the percentage of people of color in the American has tripled creating the conditions for a new majority.  Tied together with the number of progressive whites, this group has the power to elect presidents. Rightly so, Phillips points out how the current liberal stance tends to see people of color and progressives as problems they don't want to discuss.

Phillips lays it on the line when he says,

"What these leaders have failed to appreciate and understand is the essential interplay between multiracial movement for social justice and the nation's public  policy process.There would have been no Voting Rights Act or Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 without marches, protests, bloodshed, and sacrifices that took place in the streets of Selma, Alabama earlier that year."

The book is insightful and offers serious numbers to consider that could make controlling elections for the foreseeable future. For those looking for empirical evidence, Phillps offers it in the form of data taken from PEW, Zogby and more. The data shows voting patterns over many states where anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 votes would have made the difference in who won the race in gubernatorial, state offices and even county races.

By the book's end it is clear how the New Majority is already here, but to make it all happen, voting must be taken seriously.