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The End of White America?
The Atlantic ^ | January 2009 | Hua Hsu

Posted on 01/06/2009 4:04:43 PM PST by WesA

Whether you describe it as the dawning of a post-racial age or just the end of white America, we’re approaching a profound demographic tipping point. According to an August 2008 report by the U.S. Census Bureau, those groups currently categorized as racial minorities—blacks and Hispanics, East Asians and South Asians—will account for a majority of the U.S. population by the year 2042. Among Americans under the age of 18, this shift is projected to take place in 2023, which means that every child born in the United States from here on out will belong to the first post-white generation.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: america; birthrate; census; immigration; trends; white
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To: Josa

Whats Los Angeles’s Excuse then ?


21 posted on 01/06/2009 4:17:26 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: WesA
2042

Thank God I'll be dead...

22 posted on 01/06/2009 4:18:02 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: al baby

That’s not necessarily true. I know several families that are well off financially that have seven or eight children. I have six myself and I don’t think that I’m mired in poverty.


23 posted on 01/06/2009 4:20:43 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: WesA
half-Kenyan, half-Kansan

Gee, now that's interesting. The Chinese guy admits that the so-called American President....isn't.

Quick, someone usher him out of the room.

24 posted on 01/06/2009 4:23:41 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe)
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To: Josa

The Asian countries will rule the planet when whites are passe they still comparitively have their crap together.


25 posted on 01/06/2009 4:26:39 PM PST by omega4179 (Bush Abandoned Ramos and Compean)
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To: Bob J
Because you’re not in charge?

No, because as it is, we are becoming balkanized.

Samuel Huntington’s True Vision - The fruits of tolerance need roots in the soil of culture and identity.

If I had one book recommendation — another journalistic fad at this time of year — it would be Huntington’s last, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. In it, Huntington argued that American culture needed to be nurtured, not rejected in the name of a “multiculturalism” that too often serves as a stalking horse for anti-Americanism. He recognized that tolerance and pluralism are not modern inventions intended to replace America’s traditional culture, but that evolving notions of tolerance and pluralism are a central part of the American tradition (a point Obama echoed somewhat in his famous “A More Perfect Union” speech on race last March). For example, every civilization has known slavery, but only Anglo-American civilization, fueled by religious and philosophical conviction, set out to destroy it, at enormous costs. Huntington offered “an argument for the importance of Anglo-Protestant culture, not for the importance of Anglo-Protestant people.”

26 posted on 01/06/2009 4:28:21 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: WesA

I promise that America does not need to have a white super majority in order to prosper. I cringe every time someone implies that minorities are ok people as long as you outnumber them sufficiently.


27 posted on 01/06/2009 4:30:10 PM PST by Melas
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To: WesA
have babies white folks, many many babies

If that is your first solution, what is your Final Solution?

28 posted on 01/06/2009 4:30:39 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: WesA

The Bad part of the article was a cheap shot at Sarah Palin as playing white identity politics. Not only did she never race bait, Todd is part Native American, so her family is ethnically mixed.

The Good part was that it acknowledged that culture will trump racial identity. If future Americans hold true to the values of the Founders, the color of their skin will be irrelevant.


29 posted on 01/06/2009 4:31:39 PM PST by Lou Budvis ("I did not have sex with that woman..." = "I did not have contact with the governor..")
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To: Lou Budvis
If future Americans hold true to the values of the Founders, the color of their skin will be irrelevant.

Well said.

30 posted on 01/06/2009 4:33:11 PM PST by Melas
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I know that The Duggars have 18 and they are a fine well to do family


31 posted on 01/06/2009 4:33:24 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: WesA

I sure am glad all that diversity training we invented, endured, and based our society’s stability on will save us from tribalist nonsense and racial preferences when White becomes the new Black.


32 posted on 01/06/2009 4:38:29 PM PST by The Bat Man
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To: MeanWestTexan
Why on earth would you think that?

Gee, I think he's basing it on the vast empirical evidence presented by the rest of the world, which is predominantly non-white.

If you lived in a rich man's house, would that make you a rich man yourself?

Or would you just be a guest, living on someone else's accomplishments?

33 posted on 01/06/2009 4:40:40 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe)
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To: WesA

Those with “special status” as in affirmative action preferences have been in majority status for decades because of the inclusion of women.

White males have been in the minority and discriminated against for at least 25 years.


34 posted on 01/06/2009 4:42:42 PM PST by marktwain
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To: The Bat Man
I sure am glad all that diversity training we invented, endured, and based our society’s stability on will save us from tribalist nonsense and racial preferences when White becomes the new Black

You forgot the /sarc; some people on this thread will actually believe you

35 posted on 01/06/2009 4:45:27 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe)
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To: Melas
I promise that America does not need to have a white super majority in order to prosper

Gosh, guess that settles it!

400 years of history was all a big mistake, all we gotta do now is take your advice and ignore every other miserable failed third world country on the planet and pretend it'll all turn out fine

Been to South Central lately?

36 posted on 01/06/2009 4:49:09 PM PST by Regulator (Hint: Take a Gun)
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To: al baby
How come only poor people have big familys?

Complicated answer:

Because "white culture" (Anglo-European), mostly, prizes self-sufficiency and planning ahead. Until they believe they are able to supply at least a similar if not better lifestyle as they enjoy for their children, whites don't breed.

Basically, its decisions are based on financial reasoning, a sense of individuality, and not the joys of "family".

Non-white cultures prize emotion, family, and are not big on planning or self-sufficiency (Exhibit A: Zimbabwe. Exhibit B: Mexico).

This is why there is no African space program, or South American genome project. It is also why these areas suffer from population explosions, driving existing populations into deeper poverty, and spreading the results of their outlook to western civilization through soft-headed immigration policies.

37 posted on 01/06/2009 4:50:57 PM PST by The Bat Man
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To: WesA

Hispanic isn’t a race, it’s a language group. I used to work for a fellow from Argentina who told me, “When I got on the plane in Argentina, I was an average sized white guy. When I got off in America, I was a short Hispanic. Hell of a flight.”


38 posted on 01/06/2009 4:52:42 PM PST by stop_fascism
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To: Regulator
I sure am glad all that diversity training we invented, endured, and based our society’s stability on will save us from tribalist nonsense and racial preferences when White becomes the new Black

You forgot the /sarc; some people on this thread will actually believe you

True, but since those dear simple souls won't be able to find the "Any" key, I don't have to fear their stinging reprisals...

39 posted on 01/06/2009 4:56:17 PM PST by The Bat Man
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To: WesA
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I just hope that President Hugo De La Hoya Montenegro Chavez Guevara let's us continue to espeaky englaze. That's him on the left, next to his cabinet cholos, and the Patrulla Fronteriza in the back (they're there to keep white people from fleeing the Estados.)

40 posted on 01/06/2009 5:08:50 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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