Waiting for the Emerging Majority

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira review the election’s verdict on their Emerging Democratic Majority. Naturally, they pronounce that everything is fine. Democrats are doing better with minorities, singles, and the college-educated. But what about the all-American process of assimilation, of minorities
throwing off their victim status, de-hyphenating themselves and becoming Americans? Wouldn’t they become Republicans? That’s what psychologist Don Beck and his Spiral Dynamics would predict.