Steve Phillips: 'Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution has Created a New American Majority'
North Carolina State University students vote in the primaries at Pullen Community Center on March 15, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Civil rights attorney Steve Phillips has studied the impact of America's changing demographics on electoral politics. He says there aren't enough white swing voters to make a difference in 2016.
Phillips' new book is "Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution has Created a New American Majority."
He is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and spoke May 18, 2016 at the Commonwealth Club of California's "Good Lit Series." Georgia State Rep. Stacey Abrams, moderator.
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