Demographic scales are tipping in Denver, elsewhere (American's quickly becoming a minority)

Yahoo News ^ | Sept. 30, 2004 | Patrick O'Driscoll and Haya El Nasser

[The Bandit]

This should be a wakeup call to what is happening to america. We need to take America back and keep America - American!

[aruanan]

This should be a wakeup call to what is happening to america. We need to take America back and keep America - American!

Get a brain transplant. America has always been a land of immigrants beginning with the Indians.

[Clemenza]

This should be a wakeup call to what is happening to america. We need to take America back and keep America - American!

Bandito, There are many Latinos and blacks that are Americans too. --- Signed, A fellow Whiteboy

[shadowman99]

So are you saying only white people are American? That's what your headline and kkkomments suggest to me.

[newfarm4000n]

Get a brain transplant. America has always been a land of immigrants beginning with the Indians.

well said friend.. This guy must be a liberal plant.

[Catspaw]

Clemenza, toss Asians into the mix of those who call themselves Americans.

[Clemenza]

How can I forget?

I'll never forget being in a restaurant with my grandmother, who didn't think the waitress was giving us enough attention. The waitress, who spoke with a generic suburban accent was simply busy. My grandmother stated (loudly) "well being Chinese she probably doesn't speak English." My grandmother, like many of her generation, sees all Asians as "foreign." Grandma, btw, is a second generation American herself who doesn't understand that there are Asian Americans who's families have been in this country longer than her's.

[crazyhorse691]

Its a statistical game. You just keep redefining subgroups until no grouping is the majority. Americans have always consisted of many subgroups so quit acting like some born again bigot.

[Ironclad]

Swedish (paternal grandparents, arrived 1920) - German (maternal grandparents, arrived 1885) here. Nary a pilgrim - or Englishman for that matter - to be found on my family tree. Smart, productive people from anywhere should be welcome in the U.S.

[Ironclad]

Maternal great-grandparents. Sorry.

[bad company]

This should be a wakeup call to what is happening to america. We need to take America back and keep America - American!

You're not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

[SedVictaCatoni]

(American's quickly becoming a minority),
This should be a wakeup call to what is happening to america.

We're no longer able to use apostrophes correctly, you mean?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where else am I gonna get good Thai food ?

[Catspaw]

My grandmother, like many of her generation, sees all Asians as "foreign." Grandma, btw, is a second generation American herself who doesn't understand that there are Asian Americans who's families have been in this country longer than her's

And may well lump all Asians together (see my late grandfather). A good friend from college is 3rd generation Japanese-American (and has now produced a 4th generation). He never did take me home to meet Mom & Dad--even though we were never romantically involved, I thought going to Hawaii from Wisconsin in mid-January would be a really really good idea.

[Ironclad]

The Bandit, since April 4, 2004. You could well be right.

[proxy_user]

In any case, who says that speaking Spanish changes your race?

I'm with that old black fellow from Liberty City: "Them Hispanics, they ain't nothin' but white people from South America..."

(As quoted in the NYT)

[bayourod]

"Where else am I gonna get good Thai food ? "

There ain't no such thing.

[rmlew]

Minorities majority in more areas

[Porterville]

I love being Hispanic. I also love being American. I also love voting idiots out of office. I also like it when dip sticks are pushed North of Canada.

[atari]

I have no problem whatsoever with changing demographics..

but I do have problems with those who would use demographics for political gains

example: vote for me cause im of ethnic group x