Demographics of State Legislature[Data]

If you are looking to show your students how politics reflects division of race, ethnicity, and gender, the National Conference of State Legislature has put together some very user friendly data on the composition of state legislators.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/legislator-data.aspx

The above link will take you to a page where you can find information about

• Women in state legislatures
• African American legislators
• Hispanic legislators
• Legislator occupation
• Political party composition

 I like to ask students to find the information on their home states and then I use the information to initiate a conversation about under representation of minorities.