C7. The time-series chart shown below displays trends for presidential election voting rates by race and Hispanic origin for 1980–2016. U.S. Census Senior Sociologist Thom File noted how for the first time in the 2012 presidential election, black voting rates exceeded the rates for non-Hispanic whites. However, in the 2016 presidential election, there was a remarkable shift in voting rates by race and Hispanic origin. Describe the variation in voting rates in 2016 for the four racial and Hispanic origin groups and then compare that variation with that presented for the four groups from 1980 onward

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BO 70.2 Description 70 66.2 66.4 64.2 67.2 66.1 66.6 60.7 59.3 50.7 61.8 60 65.2 54.0 51.7 55.1 54.0 64.1 65.3 59.6 53.0 60.3 50.8 56.9 150 53. T 45.7 48.3 50.5 49.9 49.3 51.6 45.1 46.0 50.0 48.0 49.9 47.2 48.0 40 44.0 44.1 30 20 10 o 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 1 White, non-Hispanic 3 Other race, non-Hispanic Reported Voting 47.6 Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1980-2016 Source: Thom File, Voting in America: A 2008 2012 2016 2 Black, non-Hispanic 4 Hispanic Look at the 2016 Presidential Election, 2017. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/05/voting in america.html