There is a saying that demography is destiny. This means the composition of a population—how racially diverse it is, what group has majority status, and what the age distribution is—ultimately helps to shape the direction and future of democracy. In the United States, the combination of an aging population that is predominantly white and an increasingly diverse youth population—a result of immigration and interracial marriage—have, in recent decades, fueled a sense of anxiety, insecurity, or even fear about who is the majority, who has the power, and whose democracy it will be. Join demographers from UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service to hear about the latest census and demographic data. They will examine how race is categorized and interpreted in America to reveal the fascinating complexity of the concept of race.

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