I think part of what happened also is that it's easier to observe, it's easier to agree to disagree and have forbearance to people who you don't agree with if they all sort of look like you. There's in the United States Senate, When I got there, I was the only African American [in the United States Senate]. There was one Hispanic [Senator]. in the United States Senate. I'm not that old. So this is fairly recently there. But you had a sense of how different it was by looking at the men's gym in the Senate versus the women's gym. (21:09–21:19)
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