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The fractured politics of a browning America

Vox | February 1, 2026



The US is getting more diverse. As more Americans realize this new future, it is changing how cultural and political divides take shape.

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We live in an America where television programs, commercials, and movies are trying to represent a browner country; where Despacito, a Spanish-language song, tops the Billboard charts and where NFL players kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality. We live in an America where politicians on the right and left appeal to voters, with explicit references to race.

And researchers are now able to pinpoint how these indirect and direct are shifting political ideology.

To learn more, read Ezra’s reporting on the impact of US demographic change: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17505406/trump-obama-race-politics-immigration

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  1. @MrApw2011

    February 1, 2026 at 10:57 am

    It didn't occur to me that race is just a thing someone made up until I heard someone say that and thought about it. Think about this…. there is no such thing as a 'race'. There are ethnicities but those are not races. We're part of the human race. There's no difference between any of us other than skin color and some cultural influences based on where we come from and what we've experienced as groups being labeled by the term "race". There's just us and everything else doesn't matter. So, we're arguing about each other and considering differences about each other that are differences only based on illusion but those illusions have allowed us to cause serious harm to members of our own species based on nothing. Race doesn't exist.

  2. @RollingThunder5880

    February 1, 2026 at 10:57 am

    K͏e͏e͏p͏ i͏m͏p͏o͏r͏t͏i͏n͏g͏ 3͏r͏d͏ w͏o͏r͏l͏d͏, b͏e͏c͏o͏m͏e͏ 3͏r͏d͏ w͏o͏r͏l͏d͏. J͏u͏s͏t͏ l͏o͏o͏k͏ a͏t͏ C͏a͏l͏i͏ a͏n͏d͏ n͏o͏w͏ T͏e͏x͏a͏s͏. A͏s͏ w͏e͏l͏l͏ a͏s͏ N͏Y͏C͏.

  3. @thomwg7452

    February 1, 2026 at 10:57 am

    My class is like 80% Arabic, im Norwegian. I have no fears of this. I know people in my school with different opinions but the majority seems to be positive.
    To be clear my school as a whole is definatively majority norwegian.

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