Red, blue, purple

A joint Brookings-American Enterprise Institute project, The Future of Red, Blue and Purple America sets forth 7 trends that "seem likely to be particularly important to decoding our political future." A paper on each trend will be presented at a conference on Feb. 28, 2008. The papers will be published online and a book will be published in fall 2008. The Brookings Governance Studies Program has published an executive summary of the project.

The seven trends:

• The rise of exurbia and the changing face of the suburbs
• Do birds of a feather flock together?
• Race, immigration and the next American people
• The decline of the white working class and other shifts in the American class structure
• The changing American family
• More secular, more evangelical...or both?
• The aging of the boomers and the rise of the millennials

The Future of Red, Blue and Purple America; Executive Summary (pdf, 15pp/308kB)