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Public Opinion

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the distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues

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Demography

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Science of population changes

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Census

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Most valuable tool for understanding demographic changes

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Melting pot

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mixture of ideas cultures and peoples

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Minority Majority

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America will eventually cease to have a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority.

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Political Culture

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An overall set of values widely shared within a society

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Reapportionment

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The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every ten years on the basis of the results of the census

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Political Socialization

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process through which an individual acquires his or her political orientations, his or her knowledge, feelings and evaluations regarding his or her political world.

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Sample

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A relatively small proportion of people chosen in a survey to represent the whole