{"id":63979,"date":"2009-04-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/04\/30\/iii-a-diverse-electorate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:53:17","slug":"iii-a-diverse-electorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2009\/04\/30\/iii-a-diverse-electorate\/","title":{"rendered":"III. A Diverse Electorate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/2009-electorate-08.png?w=373\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29975\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters in 2008 were the most diverse U.S. electorate ever. Nearly one-quarter (23.7%) of all voters in 2008 were non-white, continuing a trend of growing diversity among voters in presidential contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/2009-electorate-09.png?w=384\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29974\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>More than three-quarters (76.3%) of all voters in 2008 were white, down 2.9 percentage points from a 79.2% share in 2004. The share of the electorate that was white in 2008 was the lowest in U.S. history.<\/li><li>Blacks increased their share of the electorate from 11.0% in 2004 to 12.1% in 2008.<\/li><li>Latinos also increased their share of the electorate, from 6.0% in 2004 to 7.4% in 2008.<\/li><li>Asian represented 2.5% of all voters in 2008, up from 2.3% in 2004.<\/li><li>Among voters in 2008, 17.1% were ages 18 to 29, up from 16.0% in 2004 (Kirby and Kawashima-Ginsberg, 2009).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in 2008 were the most diverse U.S. electorate ever. Nearly one-quarter (23.7%) of all voters in 2008 were non-white, continuing a trend of growing diversity among voters in presidential contests. More than three-quarters (76.3%) of all voters in 2008 were white, down 2.9 percentage points from a 79.2% share in 2004. 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