But he is also Arab-American, which makes him a nonwhite minority by the conventions of contemporary identity politics.

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Kerry did appreciably better than Edwards among South Carolina's nonwhite male respondents, but the North Carolina senator made up the difference among nonwhite women.

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The Democrats are much more diverse -- 36 percent are nonwhite.

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To begin with, while it's true that all but a few mass murderers have been men, the twins cherry-pick their examples and simply ignore nonwhite killers.

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Grainy images notwithstanding, the Rome Olympics paved the way for Beijing 2008, for good and ill: hypernationalism, political intrigue, drug use, commercialism, glitz, celebrity and the inspiring rise of poor and nonwhite athletes.

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The heroine, Raya Green (Rutina Wesley), is a smart, intellectually ambitious girl of Jamaican descent who returns to her Toronto public school after three years at a boarding school where she was the only nonwhite student.

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Furrow turned himself in to FBI agents in Las Vegas, reportedly saying that he had targeted the center as a "wake-up call" to America to kill Jews and had killed Ileto because the postman was a "nonwhite" government worker.

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Republicans, aware that their hostility to such issues as future citizenship for undocumented immigrants and affirmative action has put the majority of nonwhite voters beyond their reach, have sought to do what white Southerners did before 1965 -- erect voting barriers to preserve their power.

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If, despite the lacklustre economy and a general dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, Obama manages to defeat Mitt Romney, the explanation may be a simple matter of demographics: the Republican Party can no longer win the Presidency without increased support from nonwhite voters.

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