What America will look like in 2050, in 4 charts

The Washington Post ^ | April 3 2015 | By Philip Bump

[bob_denard]

In 35 years time -- time enough for several presidents, more than a few changes in the control of Congress, and a few dozen new seasons of "House of Cards" -- America will look different.

Not entirely different of course, but, as we've noted in the past, its demographics will have shifted enough to be noticeable. And with the release of new projections from Pew Research tracking how religious beliefs are expected to evolve, we now have a fuller picture of how America will have changed by the time today's toddlers are stalking Capitol Hill. Even if we don't necessarily know what it will mean for American politics.

Let's start with the shift in America's religious attitudes, according to Pew. In brief summary, more Americans will identify as being "unaffiliated" with any organized religion. This doesn't necessarily mean that they will be atheistic or agnostic; it simply includes the wide body of people who don't categorize their belief systems into an existing religious practice. People who are spiritual in a broad sense are included, but Wiccans, for example, aren't.

[Up Yours Marxists]

Latinos believe in Christ. And family. That counts for something.

[Regulator]

And BTW, K-Bar: Ever been west of the Tennessee state line?

Have any idea of what it’s like in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Bay Area?

We won’t mention El Paso and Albuquerque. Too far gone.

These were places that just 45 years ago were um...lilly white, except for the 10-15% black populations in California and Texas.

“Hispanics” - Mexicans - are now a plural majority in California. That’s 15 million people - up from 7 million in 1990, and about 4 million in 1980.

Tell me how that happened with just legal immigration. The 1986 Amnesty was supposed to be “only” 1.6 million. It ended up being 3 million - 100% more - and those 3 million brought in, on average, 3 others each - it just took about a decade. The INS was slow...

But that’s where your “legal immigrants” came from: amnestied illegals. And later their children, bringing in entire Oaxacan villages (these are people who are stone age troglodytes that don’t even speak Spanish...usually Nahuatl, but of course you’re COMPLETELY familiar with that, right? Right).

Don’t think that someone sitting on the Eastern Seaboard should be commenting on something you have no idea about.

[blam]

Alabama Church Opens Gun Range Behind Sanctuary

[Regulator]

That’s the way it is. That’s the way it was. That’s the way it will always be

Gosh, UYM, you know that for a fact?

That's amazing! You know the future SO WELL, you're willing to risk the United States on it!

Must be great to be so prescient.

[kabar]

No, they're not.<

Yes they are.

The well established number is that 50% of them are either illegals or the descendants of illegals.

There children are Americans at birth thru birthright citizenship. It is the current law of the land as much as you or I might disagree with it.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the U.S.-born children of permanent resident aliens are covered by the Citizenship Clause, but the Court has never decided whether the same rule applies to the children of aliens whose presence in the United States is temporary or illegal.

Some eminent scholars and jurists have concluded that it is within the power of Congress to define the scope of the Citizenship Clause through legislation and that birthright citizenship for the children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens could likely be abolished by statute without amending the Constitution.

[Up Yours Marxists]

Read a little bit about “climbing the financial ladder” before attacking.

As financial stature increases, child rearing decreases. Been that way for 100’s of years.

[Regulator]

Latinos believe in Christ. And family. That counts for something

Murder Torture Rape of Marilyn Pharis

Tell it to Kate Steinle and Marilyn Pharis.

Oh wait, you can't...they're DEAD.

[caww]

USA...Dumping ground for the World's Criminals and Peasants...

[Up Yours Marxists]

Did I mention anything about “illegal invaders”???

[Alberta's Child]

I don't think any prediction based on racial or ethnic statistics in the coming decades has any value. The biggest change in our demographics in recent years -- and this will certainly continue into the future -- is that racial and ethnic identities are slowly becoming meaningless.

Intermarriage is a big factor here. You can go into most large U.S. cities today and pick out a random sample of 100 people on the street, and you'll find that most of them can fit into one or more legal definitions of a racial or ethnic "minority" ... which means the whole definition of a "minority" has lost any meaning.

The good news is that this will likely spell the end of the idiocy of affirmative action in the U.S. Most of my friends and acquaintances with young children are Caucasians of European descent, and their children all look like that. And yet at least half of these kids will qualify as "Hispanics" when it comes to college admissions and employment applications, since one of their two parents have roots (even very loose ones) in Latin American countries.

If you really want to see what the future of America looks like, just go and find some of the news clips from those "BlackLivesMatter" protests over the last year or so. There was one from San Diego that captured America perfectly. In that one, a bunch of demonstrators that included black people and shaggy-looking young white people shut down one of the major highways in the area, and the police were there arresting them while a crowd of people whose travel was blocked was shouting at them. The crowd of people was filled with people in various work-type uniforms, including many Latino types and a lot of Filipinos in medical-type uniforms.

And that there is the future of America, folks. Black and white professional malcontents -- many of them from wealthy families -- shutting down a highway ... while Hispanics and Filipinos yell at them to get out of the way so these people can get to work.

[Chuckster]

Kinda like in 1846.

[familyop]

"Great future for the American children. Good Job, Baby Boomers...you lost the country.

That’s what happens when you are a dope, smoking baby boomer who is for free love, whatever feels good and equality for all. You really eff things up for others.

I’ll be very glad when all the boomer bastards of this ilk are dead. I hated hippies when I went to college with them and I hate them now. Faggots. We beat the hell out of them whenever they wandered into our sector."

Well said.

[Pollster1]

Better learn Spanish. This will be a different country in 2050 after 25 years of solid Dem rule. Welcome to Mexamerica.

That's like saying better learn Italian/Chinese/German after various earlier immigration waves. The successful immigrants will learn English, and eventually the children/grandchildren of the rest will do so also. I hope.

[InterceptPoint]

Latinos believe in Christ. And family. That counts for something.
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It does.

The Lyndon Johnson family-destroying formula worked with the blacks. It is unlikely to work with the Latinos.

[ought-six]

I work with a woman who said her mother was “visiting” from Mexico and gave birth to her here. I asked her if that was the case, why didn’t her mother return to Mexico, with her, when her vacation was over. She hemmed and hawed, and then said Reagan’s amnesty of 1986 allowed her to stay. I know for a fact that this woman is 40 years old, so I told her that it sounded like her mother took an 11 year vacation; but that, in any event, if she was really just on vacation, why did she never return to Mexico? Or was her vacation the most extended vacation in history. She squawked back at me in Spanish an walked away. I tell you, I fully expected HR to show up at my desk after that. Hell, it still may. There is no statute of limitations for violating PC.

[Nifster]

Unless of course we get rid of the illegals

[Nifster]

If you went to college with em you too are a baby boomer

[DesertRhino]

They believe in Christ, kinda. In reality many of them follow an odd indian pagan infused version of Catholicism. It comes complete with Mary in a cave outside of Mexico city, those day of the dead death cults, and many odd theological add ons that a traditional Bavarian catholic would find very strange.

[Regulator]

Logic is never part of the conversation.

It seems beyond them.

There’s only one equation....what’s good for them = what happens

[Regulator]

Easter in Tucson we always went to the Pascua Yaqui Indian village which used to be at Grant and I-10.

Watched the Passion play with the Deer Dancers, and the Chapeyekas as they danced past the Evil Roman Soldier spirits.

Then we would head to our usual Episcopalian Easter Sunday services.

(Pregnant pause)

To say that we were participating in the same religious holiday was one of the most jarring disconnects in my childhood.