1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
This second conference about "Red, Blue, and Purple America" brings back the panelists who convened in February 2008 to discuss America's changing demographic trends and electoral landscape. Last year, leading demographers, political scientists, and analysts examined the electoral impact of generational changes, alterations in class and family structure, minority voting patterns, changing urban-suburban mix, and shifts in religious belief. The papers were gathered in Red, Blue, and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Now, experts will analyze the 2008 demographic electoral transformation and what it may mean for the 2010 and 2012 elections.
This conference is a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution.
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast | |
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| 9:00 | Introduction: | Karlyn Bowman, AEI |
| Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution | ||
| 9:10 | Panelists: | Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort |
| Ron Brownstein, Atlantic Media | ||
| William Frey, Brookings Institution | ||
| Scott Keeter, Pew Research Center | ||
| Robert Lang, Virginia Tech | ||
| Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution | ||
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| Discussants: | Michael Barone, AEI | |
| Mark Schmitt, The American Prospect | ||
| Moderator: | Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Adjournment |
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
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American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
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Speaker biographies
Michael Barone is a resident fellow at AEI, where he studies politics, American government, and campaigns and elections. The principal coauthor of the biennial Almanac of American Politics (National Journal Group), he has written many books on American politics and history, including, most recently, Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers (Random House/Crown Forum, 2007). Mr. Barone is also a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner.
Bill Bishop is a writer living in Austin, Texas, and is the coauthor with sociologist Robert Cushing of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). Mr. Bishop has worked as a reporter at the Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Kentucky; as a columnist at the Lexington, Kentucky, Herald-Leader; and as a special projects writer at the Austin American-Statesman. He and his wife, Julie Ardery, previously owned and operated the Bastrop County Times, a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas. They now coedit The Daily Yonder, a web-based publication covering rural America.
Karlyn Bowman is a senior fellow at AEI. Her research areas include public opinion and polls, American politics, and the media. She regularly updates her AEI Public Opinion Studies on terrorism, the Iraq war, taxes, the environment, abortion, economic insecurity, and other topics. Ms. Bowman writes regular features on public opinion for Forbes.com.
Ron Brownstein is the political director for Atlantic Media Company, with responsibility for coordinating overall political coverage at its publications, which include The Atlantic, National Journal, the Hotline, and Congress Daily. He writes a weekly column on politics and policy that appears simultaneously in National Journal and the Los Angeles Times, as well as articles in National Journal and The Atlantic. From 1990 through 2007, he was the national political correspondent and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Brownstein has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage in the Times of the 1996 and 2004 presidential campaigns.
William Frey is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program and a research professor in population studies at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Mr. Frey specializes in issues involving state and regional populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics, and the U.S. Census. He has authored or coauthored over 150 articles and books, including America by the Numbers: A Field Guide to the U.S. Population (New Press, 2001) and The Allyn & Bacon Social Atlas of the United States (Pearson, 2008). Mr. Frey has been a contributing editor of American Demographics magazine. He frequently discusses demographic trends in national media venues.
Scott Keeter is the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. He is the coauthor of four books: A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000); What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters (Yale University Press, 1996); and Uninformed Choice: The Failure of the New Presidential Nominating System (Praeger, 1983). His other published research includes articles and book chapters on survey methodology, political communications and behavior, and health care topics. Since 1980, Mr. Keeter has been an election night analyst of exit polls for NBC News. He previously served as chair of the standards committee of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and is currently councillor-at-large for the association. Previously, Mr. Keeter was a professor of political science and department chair at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Robert Lang is codirector of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia, and an associate professor of urban affairs and planning in Virginia Tech's School of Planning and International Affairs. In 2007, Mr. Lang was named a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was director of urban and metropolitan research at the Fannie Mae Foundation. Mr. Lang's research has been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report, and reported on by NPR, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and ABC News. He is the author of Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis (Brookings Institution Press, 2003) and Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (Brookings Institution Press, 2007).
Mark Schmitt is the executive editor of The American Prospect. Mr. Schmitt was recently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where he researched reform of the political process, campaign finance, congressional procedure, state-level politics, budget and tax policy, and the history and role of ideas in politics. He has written for The New Republic, the Financial Times, and many other publications and has contributed chapters to numerous books. In 2003, he launched The Decembrist, which was named one of the five best political blogs in 2004 by Forbes. He also contributes to TPMCafe. Before joining the New America Foundation, Mr. Schmitt was director of policy and research at the Open Society Institute, and he was a speechwriter and policy director for then-senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). He was also a senior policy adviser to Senator Bradley's 2000 presidential campaign.
Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at both the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress, as well as a fellow at the New Politics Institute. He was recently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and wrote a series of reports with William Frey on the political geography of battleground states in the 2008 election. He is the author or coauthor of six books, including Red, Blue and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics; The Emerging Democratic Majority; America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters; and The Disappearing American Voter, as well as hundreds of articles, both scholarly and popular.
