Republican National Convention '08

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Dividing the country? Who's counting the number of people by race again? I looked at the convention and saw an audience......you looked at the convention and had to "divide" them by race.



Why do we have to divide people up by demographics? MLK never talked like this.

Uhm, yeah he did. He pointed out the disparities in education, employment opportunities, housing, etc, that black Americans face. He did so quite frequently.

From Wikipedia:Demographics or demographic data refers to selected population characteristics as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. Note the distinction from the term "demography" (see below.) Commonly-used demographics include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Distributions of values within a demographic variable, and across households, are both of interest, as well as trends over time. Demographics are frequently used in economic and marketing research.