This blog was never intended to be a "stream of conciseness". My goal has always been to achieve understanding in an academically rigorous way. Over the past year some significant changes have occurred in my life. This changes have forced me to alter the trajectory of what life remains for me. Those changes will be an adventure to be sure.

Having said that, my intellectual curiosity has been rekindled and I have the tools to better approach the kinds of understanding this blog was intended for in the first place. The first major project I intended to tackle is an understanding of how and why it appears that African-Americans' rate of participation in the 2016 was lower than it could have been expected. I am in the process of developing my understanding of this question. There is a book I am reading that will likely provide most of that understanding. I have sent a blanket request to the publisher for permission to use many of the figures in that book as I develop my understanding.

This may take awhile.