Married white guys now the minority

Who speaks for America? Who are the privileged ones whose voices dominate? They used to be the married white guys, but no longer. In the last two elections, 2008 and 2012, married white guys lost and people of color and single women dominated. It's a new day in America. The Brockporter will be reporting on this trend over the next couple of weeks. The articles are tagged "white men are dinosaurs".

For example, according to sociological research done by the Environics Research Group in answer to the question "I often, or occasionally, feel I am more a citizen of the world than of my country" only 23% of married white guys over 35 said "yes" while 54% of blacks, 59% of unmarried people, 62% of people under 30, and 72% of Latinos said "yes". While they didn't measure for religious affiliation, I am hypothesizing that religious identification would find sharp differences as well. For example, one of the 7 prinicples of Unitarian Universalism is to covenant to affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.

With the rise of the global economy, the proliferation of electronic media, and the rise of human influenced climate change, planetary consciousness is the hallmark of the new age which young people will inherit from us old white guys. As the now old Jewish white guy, Bob Dylan, sang back in the 60s, "the times they are a changin".