Analysis: 10 states still haven't elected a minority statewide.

The article focuses on an analysis by the research firm, The Associated Press, that shows Missouri as one of the state that gained statehood as part of a compromise over slave ownership. It offer views of Mark Sawyer, director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on progress for minorities on the statewide level.