Rosslyn Smith - American Thinker: The properly diverse candidate, Chicago Style - Tammy Duckworth v Andrea Zopp - "when the Democrats speak of diversity these days, they don't use the term to mean variety or differences in background. It has become a code word for favored interest groups with a claim to victim status."

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The properly diverse candidate, Chicago Style

Some Democrats in Illinois are trying to frame next Spring’s primary contest for the US Senate as a question of picking the candidate who is the most diverse. That leads to the question of what, exactly, such people mean by diverse and why isn't the contest being described as being between a candidate chosen for consideration by the coalition of the affluent-credentialed urban elite with the underclass versus a candidate from the middle class suburbs? 

The first candidate to declare her intention to seek to challenge Republican (sort of) Senator Mark Kirk was two term Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth. ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/the_properly_diverse_candidate_chicago_style.html