Posted on 08/14/2008 8:07:06 AM PDT by mngran2
Ethnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the nation’s population in a little more than a generation, according to new Census Bureau projections, a transformation that is occurring faster than anticipated just a few years ago.
The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander will together outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Four years ago, officials had projected the shift would come in 2050.
The main reason for the accelerating change is significantly higher birthrates among immigrants. Another factor is the influx of foreigners, rising from about 1.3 million annually today to more than 2 million a year by midcentury, according to projections based on current immigration policies.
“No other country has experienced such rapid racial and ethnic change,” said Mark Mather, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a research organization in Washington.
The latest figures, which are being released on Thursday, are predicated on current and historical trends, which can be thrown awry by several variables, including prospective overhauls of immigration policies and sudden increases in refugees.
A decade ago, census demographers estimated that the nation’s population, which topped 300 million in 2006, would not surpass 400 million until sometime after midcentury. Now, they are projecting that the population will top 400 million in 2039 and reach 439 million in 2050.
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that is what our government has deemed.
why are whites classified as non hispanic?
how about non hispanic blacks or non hispanic asians?
Will “affirmative action” work in reverse? I think not.............
Sen. McCain has reacted with anger that it will take until 2042.
They’ll be popping corks at the NYTs - for reasons known only to them, they think this is great news.
Somewhere in the 1960s white people forgot how to have babies.
Of course it's occurring faster than they anticipated. We have been invaded by Mexico and THAT'S who will have to largest population in America. We will cease to be America with the stroke of a pen granting amnesty to millions of illegals, and we will become the United States of Mexico!! Those corrupt congress critters who have done that to Americans should be tried for treason and hanged. What's really sad is the no matter who wins this election they're going to do it to us. Lord, forgive me, but I detest them.
That’s right:
I’M WHITE, and I’m tired of “the man” stickin’ to me!
“Somewhere in the 1960s white people forgot how to have babies.”
Not so much in the US. Conservative Christian types and Mormons are having sizable families. This trend is due to record high immigration, legal and illegal, and higher birthrates among minorities.
What they never say is, if we’d enforce our immigration laws and end the amnesty for illegals nonsense, these projections would not come about.
The Federal definitions of race are entirely politically motivated. That being said, the reality remains that Americans of European descent (Iberian descendants excluded) will become a minority of the U.S. population, perhaps even sooner than the government data allows.
“Republicans and Evangelicals Have Babies, Democrats and Seculars Buy Small Dogs.”
If white people bred like welfare moms to keep up with the other demographics so we could look towards a 2050 population of 600 million with a white majority instead of 440 without one, that would be an improvement?
Water shortages, oil shortages, 8 hour a day traffic jams, mile upon mile of farms and woods going down and townhouses going up, clearly the answer is more hundreds of millions of Americans to spread those resources more thinly.
Well, most Hispanics in the United States are white. The author of the article intends to lump Hispanic whites with blacks and Asians to create a hypothetical future majority.
So, how many times have you watched re-runs of Solyent Green? Do you have the complete set of “Captian Planet” DVDs?
Give me a break, there are practically no white nations having enough babies to replace themselves but each and every one of these nations have immigration problems — even Russia.
And yes, if our population is going to become Balkanized and be dominated by demogogues that will make Obama look like Washington then yes, I’d like to see your 600 million scenario be the alternative.
Ditto
I am tired of the malt liquor man keepin down because I am not brown....
What an odd statement. There are more white welfare moms than welfare moms of any other race.
It’s not politically correct to say certain things, but I will try:
1. In the ‘60s, the birth control pill became widely available, and was used more by middle class or upper class women, who tended to not be minorities.
2. The women’s movement started in the ‘60s, with a focus on careers for women, and them not wanting to be a stay at home mom. This ties in with birth control being used by so many women.
3. When middle and upper middle class women do have children, they are having fewer children over their lifetimes than they did previously.
4. Minorities have higher birth rates.
5. Immigration, legal and otherwise, is mostly from parts of the world where the people will be ethnic or racial minorities in America.
America as we have known it can survive as a multi-ethnic nation. That’s multi-ethnic, not “multi-cultural”. If immigrant groups assimilate and adopt to middle class, traditional family values, America will be fine if people of all ethnic backgrounds adhere to traditional values.
But if immigrants and ethnic groups insist on separatism and multi-culturalism, then America will become more Balkanized, and we may not recognize the America of 2042 when these population trends results in a majority of minority groups.
BUT HOW WOULD THEY PAY FOR GOVERNMENT!!
Trillion dollar question!
What they are too stupid to realize is allowing more in only makes matter worse... at least until most of us die out that don't agree with Socialist Utopia. They'll have their minions working for them under Socialist rule for about five minutes then Viola! US of A collapses!
Putin must be popping corks daily!
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