But in cities and dynamic suburbs, a rapidly growing force of Latinos, Asian-Americans, African-Americans and higher-income whites emerged this week as the strength of Mr. Obama's winning Democratic coalition.
"The Democrats now own a coalition of emerging metro areas where the whites and minorities live together, and where they vote Democratic," said Robert Lang, a demographer who directs the Brookings Mountain West, a research center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
via online.wsj.com
Revealing. --TS

I ask from ignorance: "emerging metro areas where the whites and minorities live together" - do they? That is, do they live together or in distinct districts within those metro areas?
Posted by: dearieme | November 08, 2012 at 01:13 AM
The tea party immigrant bashing in 2010 was prop 187 all over again. You remember what happened after that don't you?
Posted by: molly | November 08, 2012 at 08:30 AM