Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, August 30th, 2018.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary with me as always,

Avery Mwolder, senior editor, Hello Abe.

Hi John.

Noah Rothman, associate editor, Hi Noah.

Hi John.

And Saurabha Mari, senior writer, Hi Saurabh.

Hello John.

Interesting piece today in the New York Times, we thought we would focus some

attention on by Thomas B. Edsel, who has become a sort of in-house times sociologist

and political sociologist, writing very, very interesting things.

This piece is called, who's afraid of a white minority.

And Edsel, in rather eye opening way, reveals that there is a pretty significant battle

going on between political scientists and sociologists over this question about whether

or not the United States is becoming or will soon become what is called a majority

minority country in which whites or self-described whites no longer make up an absolute majority

of the population of the United States.

This fact, of course, became a move to the center of American political life after 2012

when the Republican autopsy explaining that attempted to discern why it was that Mitt

Romney had fallen.

So short, suggested that with the rise, rising Hispanic population in the United States,

in particular that the Republican party's apparent hostility toward Hispanics was going

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