Why Does The Average Of Every Congress Member Look So White?

For decades, the United States has been an increasingly diverse country. Women and minorities have more power than ever in American business, politics and entertainment. So why does this average of 535 members of Congress look exactly like a white man?

First posted to Twitter by Matthew Skomarovsky, the above image digitally combines the images of all 535 voting members of Congress (non-Washington D.C. and territory members of the House and Senate) into an average. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the average Congress member looks a lot like a white man.

The image is part of a collaboration between artist Rebecca Lieberman and Skomarovsky, originating from Lieberman’s “visually similar imgs,” which uses imagery from glitches in Google’s image search.

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