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Diversity Explosion

In the new book Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, William Frey highlights the “bottom up” demographic change that is occurring in the United States as today’s youth are considerably more racially diverse than previous predominantly white generations.

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America’s youthful minority population
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