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As America rushes headlong into a dramatic campaign season, it is clear that these consequential contests—and the ones that follow—will be hugely influenced by recent changes in the nation's makeup. Red, Blue, and Purple America provides a clear and nuanced understanding of the geographic and demographic changes that are transforming the United States and how that transformation is reshaping politics, for the 2008 elections and beyond. The invaluable result is a detailed picture of current trends as well as a clear-eyed assessment of how they will shape American politics and policy during the next two decades. An elite group of demographers, geographers, and political scientists analyze rapidly changing patterns of immigration, settlement, demography, family structure, and religion. Each analysis describes one major trend and assesses its likely impact on politics, for the 2008 elections but for the long term as well. The authors then lay out the most likely implications for public policy. In doing so, they show how these trends have shaped the Red and Blue divisions we are familiar with today, and how the developments might break apart those blocs in new and surprising ways.

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Indeed, to read through the seven informative essays in Red, Blue, and Purple America--devoted to such subjects as changes in family structure, the growth of new types of suburbs, the clustering by which demographic groups tend more and more to live together, and the rise of the more liberal Millennial generation--is to see that almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term. - Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books This book is full of information presented in words, tables and charts. The authors offer numerous insights into voting trends, a few surprises, and much food for thought. If you want to know why the 2008 election was not an aberration, read this book. - Senior Women Web There have been many efforts to find the one key voting bloc that will turn the election--soccer moms, Wal-Mart Moms, office-park Dads--but in Red, Blue, and Purple America, Ruy Teixeira explains why those descriptions have always been too simplistic or wildly wrong. - John Dickerson, Slate

Indeed, to read through the seven informative essays in Red, Blue, and Purple America--devoted to such subjects as changes in family structure, the growth of new types of suburbs, the clustering by which demographic groups tend more and more to live together, and the rise of the more liberal Millennial generation--is to see that almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term. -Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books | This book is full of information presented in words, tables and charts. The authors offer numerous insights into voting trends, a few surprises, and much food for thought. If you want to know why the 2008 election was not an aberration, read this book. - Senior Women Web | There have been many efforts to find the one key voting bloc that will turn the election--soccer moms, Wal-Mart Moms, office-park Dads--but in Red, Blue, and Purple America, Ruy Teixeira explains why those descriptions have always been too simplistic or wildly wrong. -John Dickerson, Slate

""Indeed, to read through the seven informative essays in Red, Blue, and Purple America--devoted to such subjects as changes in family structure, the growth of new types of suburbs, the ""clustering"" by which demographic groups tend more and more to live together, and the rise of the more liberal ""Millennial"" generation--is to see that almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term."" —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books |""This book is full of information presented in words, tables and charts. The authors offer numerous insights into voting trends, a few surprises, and much food for thought. If you want to know why the 2008 election was not an aberration, read this book."" — Senior Women Web |""There have been many efforts to find the one key voting bloc that will turn the election--soccer moms, Wal-Mart Moms, office-park Dads--but in Red, Blue, and Purple America, Ruy Teixeira explains why those descriptions have always been too simplistic or wildly wrong."" —John Dickerson, Slate

Indeed, to read through the seven informative essays in Red, Blue, and Purple America--devoted to such subjects as changes in family structure, the growth of new types of suburbs, the clustering by which demographic groups tend more and more to live together, and the rise of the more liberal Millennial generation--is to see that almost every major demographic trend favors the Democratic Party over the long term. --Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books This book is full of information presented in words, tables and charts. The authors offer numerous insights into voting trends, a few surprises, and much food for thought. If you want to know why the 2008 election was not an aberration, read this book. -- Senior Women Web There have been many efforts to find the one key voting bloc that will turn the election--soccer moms, Wal-Mart Moms, office-park Dads--but in Red, Blue, and Purple America, Ruy Teixeira explains why those descriptions have always been too simplistic or wildly wrong. --John Dickerson, Slate

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Ruy Teixeira is a joint fellow at the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress, and he was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution 2007–11. His previous books include America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters, written with Joel Rogers, and The Emerging Democratic Majority, with John Judis.

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