Posted on 08/13/2008 9:36:12 PM PDT by nmh
WASHINGTON — White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.
The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.
It is also growing older.
"The white population is older and very much centered around the aging baby boomers who are well past their high fertility years," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "The future of America is epitomized by the young people today. They are basically the melting pot we are going to see in the future."
The Census Bureau Thursday released population projections through 2050, based on rates for births, deaths and immigration. They are subject to big revisions, depending on immigration policy, cultural changes and natural or manmade disasters.
The U.S. has nearly 305 million people today. The population is projected to hit 400 million in 2039 and 439 million in 2050.
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"By 2050, whites will make up 46 percent of the population and blacks will make up 15 percent, a relatively small increase from today. Hispanics, who make up about 15 percent of the population today, will account for 30 percent in 2050, according to the new projections."
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"The population 85 and older is projected to more than triple by 2050, to 19 million."
the big cities will look very different. fly-over country will look the same. i’m moving there when i retire.
“Whites in the Minority by 2042, U.S. Census Predicts”
I’ll be 73. If I live that long. Besides, WGAS about skin color?
In answer to your question - race baiters.
My question is how do they define “white”?
ha. look at the rates in which minorities commit crimes relative to their percentage in the population. then you might GAS about skin color.
Self-genocide is an odd phenomenon.
Can anyone remember why we decided to destroy the culture we started off with?
Minorities do. Your progeny will pay a price for your lack of concern.
Imagine the USA as a third world ghetto.
And the media is cheering this, almost promoting it like they’re gloating. Now why would that be? Why do they think whites being a minority is a good thing...hmmmm...
“Your progeny will pay a price for your lack of concern.”
Try again, my “progeny” are half-breeds and they are doing just fine, thank you!
>Imagine the USA as a third world ghetto.<
I don’t have to imagine it. I’ve been to East L.A.
“That race is nothing more than skin color.”
Are there other important genetic differences?
Possibly the millions of non-English speaking, non-white USA citizens who decide NOT to pay your Social Security and MediCare?
It’s really more about culture and language than race or ethnicity. “White” is, after all, kind of a construct, which has shifted over time.
But it does seem that the Anglo-American culture and identity has decided to self-destruct, for some reason.
If we don’t somehow take back the dynamics of what defines Americans, from the racialists, your “progeny” are going to be assigned to an ethnic box, and the competition will impact them exactly as it will any other.
Barack Obama is a “half-breed” as was said (I wouldn’t use that term except to respond to it). He’s been defined as a “black”.
So also Tiger Woods. Depending on circumstances, they’ll be assigned a box to check.
The solution lies not in trying to “win” for one or the other box.
The solution lies in demolishing the “hyphens” which liberals use to keep us fighting each other.
I honestly don’t care enough about the issue. I just love watching people panic over skin color. I thought the 50’s were over.
Again, you have repeated the same mistaken assumption that race is nothing more than skin color. But please, do not allow me to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming.
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