Posted on 08/13/2008 6:01:32 PM PDT by Publius804
Census report sees minorities becoming majority by 2042
BY OLIVIA WINSLOW | olivia.winslow@newsday.com
6:11 PM EDT, August 13, 2008
In a new report out Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau projects the nation will become much more diverse by midcentury, with minorities forecast to become the majority population by 2042, experts said.
The growing national diversity is also a trend seen locally, particularly among Hispanics, experts said.
"Hispanics are primarily drawn here by economic opportunity," Koppelman continued. "If the economy remains robust on Long Island, this population will continue to expand."
The Census Bureau projects that minorities, now roughly one-third of the nation's population, will become the majority by 2042, and grow to 54 percent by 2050. Hispanics are projected to nearly triple their numbers -- rising from an estimated 46.7 million today to just under 133 million by 2050, out of a projected total U.S. population of 439 million.
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Yeah, and then my kids will get to see how white people fare when they’re the minority.
This is so ridiculous. Don’t they know the world is ending December 2012?
Great! Does this mean that we white Christian males will get preferential treatment?
sarc/off
... Can ethnic minority groups translate their greater numbers into greater political and legal power to challenge systemic discrimination in housing?”
I guess I missed something. What does political and legal power by minority groups have to do with “systemic” discrimination in housing? Housing discrimination was banned by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It’s probably an economic issue; i.e. poor people, minority or not, can’t afford to buy a house on Long Island as it is.
I’ll be dead by then
“Yeah, and then my kids will get to see how white people fare when they’re the minority.”
About how they fare in any inner city in the U.S. now which is not very well. They get the shit kicked out of them and worse because they’re white and CNN and our govt doesn’t care. How much racism against non-whites is reactionary to growing up getting the crap beat out of you every day I wonder. That’s not to excuse it, but there is a double standard when it comes to racism.
Complete and total nonsense. The Irish, Germans, Italians, et al were all minorities in their day. Assimilation still works unless the party of privilege and division (Democrat) derails it.
I agree, and Hispanics are not a monolithic group.
Census is not counting the offspring correctly ya' know. More like the old "one drop" rule than the more modern "bi racial" standard.
And there was a report this last week that whites are already in the minority in California. 2042 came a little early.
"We will be a majority minority".
There is no way the so-called minorities,those who refuse to fit in, are going to give up that special politically correct status.
They will sub divide themselves to keep that designation. There is no way white people will ever get any preferred status as a minority. They are fooling themselves if they think they are.
Now? Well, we now have upwards of 40 million illegals and their anchor babies in country...Driving the standard of living down, and choking off our entire system, from social services, to our medical services, jails, schools jobs, etc...While all of us are forced at gun point to watch and pay for this national disaster.
That laughter and humor...Has all but died out.
Texas also went that way 2 years ago.
See #17
“And there was a report this last week that whites are already in the minority in California. 2042 came a little early.”
A report just came out last week showing this? Gosh, all one had to do 30 years ago when I was a kid growing up there was to take a look around. Maybe not in N. Calif but in S. Cal, all one had to do was take a look around and it was pretty obvious. Now when I go there and take a look around, I’m even more in the extreme minority.
Look to history. The Zimbabwe model says otherwise.
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