The New Demos of 'Gadget Ownership'

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As ownership of electronic devices has proliferated, talk of a vast “digital divide” along ethnic lines has largely fallen by the wayside. A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, based on August-September polling, indicates why that’s the case.

Fifty-three percent of the survey’s whites reported owning a laptop computer, as did 45 percent of non-Hispanic black and 50 percent of Hispanic respondents. Similarly, 47 percent of whites, 46 percent of non-Hispanic blacks and 43 percent of Hispanics said they own an MP3 player.

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