“The Voting Rights Act turns 50 today. Here are three trends in minority voting you should know about.”

Bernard Fraga for The Monkey Cage:

African Americans can (and do) vote at far higher rates than they did in the decade before the Voting Rights Act, according to the evidence. But Latino and Asian-American turnout remain so low that our elections may be less representative of the racial/ethnic mix of the country than they were 50 years ago.

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