[applause] >> my name is antoine yoshinaka and i'm her fester in the department. guess i am the token professor on the panel today. i'll keep my comments relatively brief but before you get into it i just want to touch on three big themes that i'm going to talk about today. the first one is obviously this country has been growing quite a bit lately. the growth is not equal everywhere. there are areas that are growing at a faster rate than others and what i want to show you today is that the areas that are providing the most growth in the country are areas where the democrats are doing increasingly well. conversely where democrats have been doing not so well in the last 10 years are areas that are not growing very fast and are not -- some of them are not growing at all so for the republicans in the room i think that something that you really want to understand, to see where the demographic shifts are occurring and where the political shifts are occurring. number two i think building upon what dante said it's important to understand that this category known as subur

joining them will be antoine yoshinaka, who is a colleague of mine. he's doing work on congressional redistricting, and he will share his insight into the data that has unfolded. one of the first faculty members i met was the gentleman to my immediate left, a rather unusual member of the faculty since he is not a social scientist. almost all of the school's faculty are social scientists, and a few lawyers. dante is a journalist, active, and he is an inventor. the thing that makes dante unique is he has the heart of a ournalist. he is good at math. for journalists, unusual, and he has played around with numbers. years ago he invented something called patchwork nation, and instead of looking at states, he began to look at counties as the units that are most interesting about perhaps the most fundamental in understanding the way the country is moving, not just politically, but in a whole realm of things. we are delighted that dante has evolved that project into something now called the dual american communities project a steer at the school of public aff

joining them, anantoine yoshinaka in the school of public affairs. antoine is doing work on congressional redistricting among other things and will look at insight into the data that filedded. one of the first faculty members i met when i first came to campus, gentleman to my immediate left, a rather unusual member of the faculty since he is not a social science. almost all the scholars in school of public affairs are social scientists. usually political scientist. some economists and there are a few lawyers there too. dante is journalist, active journalist and an inventor too. the thing that makes dante kind of unique he has the head or the brain of a social scientist but he has the heart of a journalist. a few years ago -- >> good at math. >> and he is good at math. for a journalist, unusual, right? he played around with numbers. a few years ago he invented something you may be familiar with, called patchwork nation. and instead of looking at states, he began to look at counties as the units that are most interesting, perhaps, the most fundamental in under

i name is antoine yoshinaka. i'm the token professor on the panel today. i will keep my comments brief, but before i get into it, i want to touch upon three eight themes that i will talk about today. the first one is this country has been growing quite a hit lately. the growth is not equal everywhere. there are areas that are growing at a much faster rate than others. what i want to show you is that the areas that are providing the most gross in this countries are -- most growth are areas that democrats are doing increasingly well. where democrats have been doing not so well in the last 10 year s are areas that are not growing fast or not at all. republicans in the room, some thing that you really want to understand to see where the democratic -- demographic shifts are occurring and political shifts are occurring. ember two, coming up on -- number two, building upon what some said, this masks very important heterogeneity and urbanurgbs suburbs. the third point is to show you data that's just some of this bifurcation between urban suburbs and the rest is a

, i would like to thank bill mcintuff, elizabeth williamson, michael bloomfield, and our own antoine yoshinaka and dante chinni and presentation about suburbia. [applause] thank you all. and everybody can go to class. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> live look at the u.s. capitol here today. senate to back after recessing at about 2:15 p.m. live camera look now outside those camera lunches. we will move to that as we can. outside was called the ohio clock, oftentimes senators will come to the mics to comment, and if they do, there it is now, picture of that. while we wait, some congressional tweets for you. republican congresswoman lynn jenkins says the senate must act to protect americans from the reality of the president's health care law. vermont democrat senator patrick leahy tweets, this kind of bumper sticker politics appealing to our worst instincts is childish and irresponsible. and new mexico democratic senator >> talking their about a bill that the senate will take up. the house passed a resolution to keep the government funded with language that would defund ob

joining them will be anton -- antoine yoshinaka, a colleague of mine the department of government in the school of public affairs. doing a lot of fundamental work and congressional redistricting and is also going to share his insight into looking at the debate as it unfolds. the gym and to miami in left. he's not a social scientist. some economists. a few lawyers and then. but he is a journalist, an active journalist. and an inventor. the think it makes him unique is that he has the head or the brain of a social scientist. >> he's good at math he invented something you may be familiar with. he began to a cat counties something we now call a new american community's project based right here at the school of public affairs at american university. in talking to dante about this early on many of my stuff, there is interesting stuff in here. we should get into it commensurate. the development of this panel and what dante -- dante chinni will now tell us about the american community's president. [applause] >> thank you for coming today. might have been hard to give up. life goes on and we