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Originally Posted by filtherton
It follows directly from the Central Limit Theorem, blah blah blaghetty blah...
What he's saying is that if you assume that all races are equal, then that would also mean that all races are equally suited to public office, and would have the same liklihood of attaining public office. All other things being equal, one would expect that the distribution of different races amongst elected officials would track the distributions of different races amongst the general populace.
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I would put it a bit differently.
Candidates for high elective office (Governor or US Senator) should be qualified.
One reasonable way to measure "qualified" is having served in a lower elective office.....mayor/city council, state legislature.....
The pool of qualified blacks for these higher elective office by having served in these lower elected positions has increased significantly in the last 40+ years (since passage of the Voting Rights Act).
In an ideal world, that would translate upward over time and it hasnt .... we only have two black governors and zero black senators.