AP Government Chapter 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Public Opinion | The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues. |
| Demography | the science of population changes |
| Census | A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. |
| Melting Pot | the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. |
| Minority Majority | The emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority. It is predicted by about 2060, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans together will outnumber White Americans. |
| Political culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| Reapportionment | the process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. |
| Political Socialization | According to Richard Dawson, "the process through which an individual acquires his particular political orientations - his knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his political world." |
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