Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...representative of the mood of the entire female population of the country. I really want to believe that. But for the sake of argument, let's imagine that this poll does represent a shifting attitude on the part of women towards religious influence on political life in America. Let's imagine that there really are lots of people who watch "Touched by an Angel" every week. It's time to start paying attention to that shifting attitude...
...city has already implemented many of the major changes Clinton and Gore have proposed for America's future, including crime reduction measures and universal Internet access in schools...
...white, was called a "nigger-loving whore" for walking with her black boyfriend in Georgia. But Nicole, a Los Angeles teen whose father is black and mother is white, felt she and her friends had progressed far beyond those divisions. "I think this generation has definitely made America a different America," she says. "It's Asian; it's Latino; it's everything...
Today, cities like Los Angeles, New York and Houston are already "majority minority." But some states, like South Dakota, are still more than 90% white. One thing bears remembering: every day America's heartland looks more and more like New York and Los Angeles, not the other way around...
...have some hard decisions to make in the next few decades. America has a track record of turning against minorities in tough economic times. By the year 2050, whites will be a demographic minority but not a political or economic one. If we don't open up opportunities equally to all Americans, we could see a rising level of resentment among the nonwhite majority. Americans love to fight. The question is whether we will fight one another for parts of the economic pie or fight together to raise the standard of living and opportunity for all Americans...