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Whites to Be Minority in N.Y. Soon, Data Show
NY Times ^ | March 7, 2006 | SAM ROBERTS

Posted on 03/08/2006 2:53:04 PM PST by neverdem

The influx of foreigners to New York and its suburbs and the continuing exodus of non-Hispanic whites to other parts of the country have transformed the face of metropolitan New York so profoundly that whites will constitute a minority of the region's population within a few years, demographers say.

The shift would make New York the first large metropolitan area outside the South and West in which whites do not make up a majority, according to an analysis of 2004 Census estimates by the Brookings Institution that was released yesterday.

The analysis also reveals a historic reversal: For the first time since at least the 19th century, the black population of both the city and, to a lesser extent, the region, has declined. In the five boroughs, according to the estimates, the number of blacks declined by about 30,000 since 2000, dipping below 30 percent of the overall population, as the migration of blacks to the suburbs and areas like the South outpaced immigration from the Caribbean and Africa.

In contrast, the analysis found that while the greater New York region over all lost 162,000 non-Hispanic whites and several hundred blacks from 2000 to 2004, the region gained 288,000 Hispanic people and 201,000 Asians — more Asians, in fact, than any other metropolitan area.

Increasingly, the New York region's growing multiracial makeup reflects the changing face of the inner ring of suburbs as many new immigrants bypass the city altogether or migrate from the city to neighboring counties after a generation or less.

What makes the city and the region unusual, though, is that among the nation's 88 metropolitan areas with half a million or more people, New York is one of only three — Houston and Honolulu are the others — where the proportion of blacks, Hispanics and Asians...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Georgia; US: Hawaii; US: Massachusetts; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: census; duplicatearticle; emigration; immigration; minorities; newyorkcity; population
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1 posted on 03/08/2006 2:53:06 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Already Posted!


2 posted on 03/08/2006 2:53:44 PM PST by Clemenza (Dick Cheney is a big middle finger to the "other directed" Sheeple. My kind of guy!)
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To: neverdem; Admin Moderator

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3 posted on 03/08/2006 2:54:36 PM PST by Clemenza (Dick Cheney is a big middle finger to the "other directed" Sheeple. My kind of guy!)
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To: neverdem

Unless the white folks are prohibited by law from leaving or the people of color are required by law to move there, who cares?


4 posted on 03/08/2006 2:58:06 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: neverdem

Wow, does that mean that whites can start collecting all that minority - only money, ie., job preferences, college paid tuitions, hate crime lawsuits, housing preferences, etc???


6 posted on 03/08/2006 3:06:02 PM PST by caisson71
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To: caisson71

I would hope so.


7 posted on 03/08/2006 3:06:52 PM PST by birbear (You know what? This is crap. We're going to stop this.)
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To: neverdem
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

ROBERT HEINLEIN
8 posted on 03/08/2006 3:08:56 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (“Don't approach a Bull from the front, a Horse from the rear, or a Fool from any side.”)
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To: neverdem

It doesn't bother me, as long as they learn English.


9 posted on 03/08/2006 3:10:52 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: jv1; neverdem

Wrong! As was discussed in detail on the duplicate thread posted yesterday. The real reason is that NYC has become a haven for affluent whites and the childless. The only whites "fleeing" are lower middle class types who can't afford to live there anymore. Its not so much that affluent whites are leaving, its that they just aren't having kids.


10 posted on 03/08/2006 3:14:45 PM PST by Clemenza (Dick Cheney is a big middle finger to the "other directed" Sheeple. My kind of guy!)
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To: neverdem
whites will constitute a minority of the region's population within a few years, demographers say.

How lucky these people will be to live in such a multi cultural area. My friends and I down here in Florida wish them the very best. However if any of them intend to move down here for any reason.... I advise them.....don't! not unless you intend to take some lessons in good manners.....and also learn to drive. :^))

11 posted on 03/08/2006 3:22:54 PM PST by scouse
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To: Clemenza
seems like good news to me.
Now whites will be eligible for set asides.
1st dibs on minority contracts.
Extra admittance in college admissions.
Can now have the Congressional White Caucus.
Be the victim in hate crimes.
Get all the Pell Grants.
Get preference before the EEOC
Can race hustle JET & BET

woo-hoo
12 posted on 03/08/2006 3:44:33 PM PST by stylin19a (Do you still have sex or are you already playing golf?)
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To: neverdem
"...whites will constitute a minority of the region's population within a few years, demographers say."

I'm actually surprised they're not already a minority.

13 posted on 03/08/2006 3:59:02 PM PST by Jorge
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To: neverdem

Will...Bill the Ivory Peckerwood be saved from extinction?....


14 posted on 03/08/2006 3:59:48 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Clemenza
Do you ever get the feeling that once whites ARE surpassed in terms of population, we'll see headlines like, "Whites Are Still the Minority! Yah-oo!"
15 posted on 03/08/2006 4:14:55 PM PST by Lou L
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To: neverdem
The Dems have acted like whites are the minority for the last 50 yrs and the GOP seems pretty much to be warming to that perception as well...

imo
16 posted on 03/08/2006 4:33:04 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: neverdem

Will they be able to get free cheese now ?


17 posted on 03/08/2006 4:33:21 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: neverdem

The term 'minority' has always irked me. What is a black in South Africa. What is a arab in Saudi Arabia. What is a Christian in Saudi Arabia? When whites become true minorities in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are they really likely to get all the 'rights', special treatments, and other goodies that come with minority startus?


18 posted on 03/08/2006 4:38:08 PM PST by SoCal_Republican (Bubbleheads for Bush)
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To: neverdem

Make that, "Whites will be a minority in America soon."

Good, then maybe we can get some rights too.


20 posted on 03/08/2006 5:29:30 PM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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