Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion:
"Except that if we look at the composition of the 2010 Congress, for instance, we find that it was 57% Protestant and 29% Catholic and 7% Jewish. The general population is 51% Protestant and 24% Catholic, so that these two branches of Christianity are actually over-represented in the political class. And, Episcopalians and Presbyterians, the members of the old WASP denominations, are over-represented among the Protestants. Only 43 members of that Congress were African-American, i.e. less than 10% and less than their proportion in the general population. 28 members were Latinos. Women held 90 seats, or about 17% and were obviously grossly under-represented in favor of men."
He hits on the over/under representation of various groups in the US but fails to add that the Jewish faith is over represented in the US congress. He gives the fact that in 2010 7% of Congress were Jewish but fails to follow-up with the Jewish percent of the population. In 2010 it was 1.2% [Wikipedia].
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