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...
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Unless the white folks are prohibited by law from leaving or the people of color are required by law to move there, who cares?
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???
I would hope so.
It doesn't bother me, as long as they learn English.
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.
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. :^))
I'm actually surprised they're not already a minority.
Will...Bill the Ivory Peckerwood be saved from extinction?....
Will they be able to get free cheese now ?
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?
Make that, "Whites will be a minority in America soon."
Good, then maybe we can get some rights too.
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