Multiple Choice
Following the 2015 elections, state legislatures exhibited which of the following characteristics?
A) About fifty percent of all legislators were women.
B) Democrats held 43 percent of the seats while Republicans held 56 percent.
C) Legislatures were less racially and ethnically diverse then they were in the previous decade.
D) The legal profession accounted for about fifty percent of all legislators.
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