Almost one-in-five voting members of the House and Senate are a racial or ethnic minority, making the 115th U.S. Congress the most diverse in history. And while Congress as a whole remains disproportionately white when compared with the U.S. population, the racial and ethnic profile of newly elected members more closely resembles the increasingly diverse populace, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
Overall, nonwhites (including blacks, Hispanics, Asians/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans) make up 19% of the current Congress. By comparison, nonwhite Hispanics and other racial minorities make up 38% of the nation’s population.
Minorities, however, account for 20 of 59 new members (34%) of the House and Senate. This represents a notable jump over the 114th Congress, when just 11 of 71 new members (15%) were aracial or ethnic minority and the Senate had no newly elected minority members. This year, three freshman senators are a racial or ethnic minority, along with 17 new members of the House. hope this helps
DescriptionThe Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
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Hi?the Cartoon is been portrayed as a beastly figure because, like the Blacks in the 19th century, Irish immigrants were not welcomed in most communities in the United States. The beastly caricature of the Irish man also portray him as angry, could be because of the competition for jobs between newly arrived Blacks from Southern plantations. It is also not surprising for the appearance and behavior of the Irish Caricature, during this juncture in American History, Irish men were been forcefully conscripted in the Union army to fight what they considered as a “Black man’s war” (New Yorker, October 1998).
