Trumps Cabinet doesnt look much like America. It looks more like his voters.
With the announcement that he was nominating former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to lead the Department of Agriculture, Donald Trump's Cabinet is complete. There'd been rumors that Trump was looking to find a Hispanic candidate to fill the position, but that didn't happen. Which means, as our Ed O'Keefe notes, that Trump's is the first Cabinet since 1980 in which no member is Hispanic.
That's interesting in part because the country itself has gotten so much more diverse since Ronald Reagan was elected. In 1980, about 6 percent of the population was Hispanic and about 80 percent of the country was white. (The Census Bureau tallies the two groups separately; this article uses the term “white” to refer to non-Hispanic whites.) In 2015, only 62 percent of the country was white — and 18 percent was Hispanic.
That said, Trump's Cabinet — mostly men, mostly white — does resemble another group of people: Those who voted for Donald Trump.
Consider gender. According to exit polling, 53 percent of Trump voters were men. That's not as heavily male as Trump's Cabinet, which is 87 percent male. But it's more male than the population on the whole. If you include Cabinet-level positions — U.N. ambassador, chief of staff, head of the EPA — the ratio shifts a bit more.
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I hope at least they have a higher IQ than his voters.
