{"id":319234,"date":"2026-08-12T03:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:38:38","slug":"nyc-dsas-membership-is-very-very-white-internal-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319234\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC-DSA’s membership is very, very white, internal report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A solid majority of the rapidly growing New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) self-identifies as white \u2014 despite the far-left faction touting itself as champions of diversity and inclusivity, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

The Big Apple chapter, whose membership includes Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and Queens Congresswoman and \u201cSquad\u201d member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, is 60% white, an internal demographic survey of its members found. <\/p>\n

That makes the socialist organization considerably less racially diverse than the New York City population \u2014 and even the Democratic Party as a whole.<\/p>\n

\"DemonstratorsTne NYC-DSA is 60% white, according to an internal demographic survey \u2014 far less diverse than the Democratic Party or New York City\u2019s population. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party is approximately 56% white, according to Pew Research Center. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to the latest available data from the US Census Bureau, the population of New York City \u2014 one of the most diverse cities in the world \u2014 is just 34% white.<\/p>\n

The survey, which NYC-DSA shared with City & State<\/a>, was the first of its kind since 2021, when the national organization surveyed its membership and found that 85% identified as white.<\/p>\n

The DSA and NYC-DSA\u2019s ranks have swelled since then, with nationwide membership ticking up over 120,000 and the New York City chapter eclipsing 15,600.<\/p>\n

\"AlexandriaNYC-DSA members include Lefty \u201cSquad\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n

NYC-DSA said 63% of its members took part in the survey, which asked them how they self identify.<\/p>\n

Among the group\u2019s non-white respondents were those identifying as Jewish (12%), Hispanic (14%), black (9%), Asian (10%), South Asian (5%), Middle Eastern (4%), Native American (2%) and less than 1% identified as Pacific Islander, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

However, the NYC-DSA\u2019s membership might slowly be growing more diverse, with 57% of those who joined this year identifying as white, and 67% of new national chapter members doing the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A solid majority of the rapidly growing New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) self-identifies as white…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1091,95494,57,9,56,63,65,64,1211,32545,58],"class_list":["post-319234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-demographics","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-socialism","tag-surveys","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}