California Voter and Party Profiles. 1  Independent registration has increased; four in ten likely voters are Democrats. 2  California s 17.7 million registered voters constitute 72.7% of eligible adults, which is about the same as in 2011 (72.8%), the last year preceding a presidential election. Whites make up 43% of California s adult population, but 60% of those we identified as likely to vote over the past year are white. 2  In contrast, Latinos make up 34% of the state s adult population but only 18% of likely voters.
The Modern Greek word for family is oikogneia, pronounced eeko YEN eeya. The ancients had no general word for family; the closest Classical Greek word for it is oikia, meaning house, or household. The reigning family, for example, is he tyrannik oika. Go
More. A person's family was originally the servants of their household. It then came to be âall the people who live in one house, including parents, children, and servantsâ, before it settled on its modern meaning. The word is from Latin famulus âhousehold servantâ, as is familiar (Middle English).oun (plural families). 1 [treated as singular or plural] A group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit: she moved in with her boyfriendâs family [as modifier]: the family home.