What Congress Would Look Like If It Really Represented America
I wish they’d listed atheist/nonreligious under religion. For which the numbers would be, I think, 1 person in the current congress, well below what it would need to be truly representative.
Also note: need for third party representation, waaaaay too many white dudes, and they didn’t even touch sexual orientation or gender identity - identities that are vanishingly small in our supposed representation compared to presence in real life.
Quote from the accompanying article:
The average American’s net worth is $96,000. But the average Senator’s net worth?$13.4 million. For House members that sum drops to “just” $5 million.