On a scale of 1 to 10, how representative of the Democratic Party is DU?

[whatthehey]

63. It's changing a bit for me.

I've never lived in a racially balanced or minority/majority area though. I've spent my life in the "nicer" suburbs of various Midwestern or prairie state cities, where even among Dem activists minorities are...well, minorities. That doesn't mean we haven't cared about or supported racial equality, far from it. It does mean we have had relatively little participation from those who live and breathe that question on a first person level. I do perceive a bit of blase deprioritization in the last few years there to be honest. Not that anyone will ever say or even think "screw minorities, we're over that" but I do think the hopes for postracial society have kind of become happy imaginings that we're already there in some cases so I am indeed seeing a bit more emphasis on economoic issues in recent times. Does that mean an overall vote would rank income over race as a priority, even there? I really don't know, but the arc is moving that way I believe, in areas such as mine that are say < 25% minority areas.