Think Des Moines Is Full of Corn and White People? Think Again.

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6. Thanks for posting this.

Here's another good article about Iowa and its changing demographics. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/iowa-isnt-the-state-presidential-candidates-pretend-it-is/

In February, Iowans will cast the first votes of the presidential nominating process, just as they have for 44 years. Over that time, reams of paper and pixels have been spent on the question of whether a racially homogenous and basically agricultural state should have such a prominent role.2 But the state is not exactly the bucolic land of yeoman farmers that candidates, critics and Iowans themselves think it is.

Iowa is whiter than the country but has grown more diverse. It houses multinational corporations and more people whose work revolves around spreadsheets than around tractors.

Some of that has to do with the march of time. Since 1972, Iowa has in many ways become less and less an outlier as farmers went broke, and African-Americans and Hispanics migrated to its cities.

More at the link.