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circlethesquare

(806 posts) Wed Aug 13, 2014, 12:23 PM Aug 2014

White Students Now a Minority in Public Schools

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White Students Now a Minority in Public Schools (Original Post) circlethesquare Aug 2014 OP

While it may be true that white students now make up less than 50% of the iemitsu Aug 2014 #1

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1. While it may be true that white students now make up less than 50% of the

Reply to circlethesquare (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:26 PM

Aug 2014

children enrolled in public schools (49.8%) that does not make them a minority. They are still the majority ethnic group and if one includes white Hispanics they are comfortable in that position.
I think that much of the hype surrounding this demographic reality is designed to be divisive, especially to democrats, whom, the promoters of the white minority meme, hope to see jump ship and join the white republican party.

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