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Census: Whites no longer a majority in U.S. by 2043
CBS News ^ | 12-12-12 | AP

Posted on 12/12/2012 10:18:34 AM PST by Brandonmark

White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections, part of a historic shift that is already reshaping the nation's schools, workforce and electorate.

The official projection, released Wednesday by the Census Bureau, now places the tipping point for the white majority a year later than previous estimates, which were made before the impact of the recent economic downturn was fully known.

America continues to grow and become more diverse due to higher birth rates among minorities, particularly for Hispanics who entered the U.S. at the height of the immigration boom in the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the mid-2000 housing bust, however, the arrival of millions of new immigrants from Mexico and other nations has slowed, pushing minority growth below its once-torrid pace.

The country's changing demographic mosaic has stark political implications, shown clearly in last month's election that gave President Barack Obama a second term — in no small part due to his support from 78 percent of non-white voters.

The non-Hispanic white population, now at 197.8 million, is projected to peak at 200 million in 2024, before entering a steady decline in absolute numbers as the massive baby boomer generation enters its golden years.

"The fast-growing demographic today is now the children of immigrants," said Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a global expert on immigration and dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, describing the rate of minority growth in the U.S. as dipping from "overdrive" to "drive." Even with slowing immigration, Suarez-Orozco says, the "die has been cast" for strong minority growth from births.

As recently as 1960, whites made up 85 percent of the U.S., but that share dropped after a 1965 overhaul to U.S. immigration laws opened doors to waves of new immigrants from Mexico...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: census; demography; usdemography; whites
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To: Brandonmark

Perhaps sooner if Barack the Kenyan can remove our borders and remove our immigration laws with his new ‘RAT Voter Registration Bill. All of Mexico and points south will be moving here.


61 posted on 12/12/2012 11:40:05 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I feel sad for my once great country. We deserve everything that is about to happen to us.)
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To: txrefugee

This is such bunk—No one knows what will happen in the next 40 some years. A new influx of Europeans could move here due to Islam? Russians could move her? Racism could revive and non-whites be kicked out. Mass die offs could occure and slay all people of color? Heck, there might not even be a USA in 40 years.


62 posted on 12/12/2012 11:52:43 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Brandonmark

Which is why the GOP is urinating upstream thinking Dem-lite is EVER going to get them in power. GOP = done.


63 posted on 12/12/2012 11:53:09 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

I live in WI. No, we are not lily white and even the rural areas that used to be so are experiencing an influx of urban minorities. This is after the influx of Somalis and Hmong brought in a decade or so ago by the churches. So, in towns of 50k or so, we now have Hmong gangs fighting black gangs. In the town nearest us, population 4k, there are enough blacks that it is no longer a rarity. I hear the social workers in Milwaukee and Madison advise the single moms that 1) it is safer here and 2) the benefits are better.


64 posted on 12/12/2012 11:53:31 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Brandonmark

White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043...

It will be a surprise if it doesn’t happen sooner. The radical libtards are working as fast as they can to attain this goal...then we’ll have the biggest beached whale of a failed democracy you have ever seen. America brought down from within by so many that hate her.


65 posted on 12/12/2012 11:56:57 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Brandonmark

bump


66 posted on 12/12/2012 12:02:20 PM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

For the most part, if you live outside of Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport Connecticut feels very white. The problem is, as with most of New England, too many of those white people are self-destructively leftist or unionized. Enough to predictably deliver the state by a wide margin to any Democrat who runs for any office. I recall Romney inching within single digits of the Marxist during polls close to November 6. In the end is was pie in the sky: the Marxist won CT by around 15 points! I’ve concluded based on this outcome that, like MA and NY, CT will never again help deliver a GOP presidential candidate.


67 posted on 12/12/2012 12:03:25 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
....have you ever noticed in the commercials to protect homeowners againsts burglars and intruders, the the criminals breaking into homes are ALWAYS portrayed as non-hispanic WHITES

To me, those commercials are advertising Mossberg 500's more than burglar alarms, burglar alarms are obviously for when you are not at home.

68 posted on 12/12/2012 12:08:19 PM PST by j. earl carter
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To: sakic

The country was half empty when the Irish got here. Also they were the same race & religion & didn’t have the opportunity to drain as resources current immigrants have.

If this reminds you of Irish immigration it’s because you’re ignorant of history &/or the present.


69 posted on 12/12/2012 12:11:50 PM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: Brandonmark

I’ll be long dead by then, will be more than happy to sign off when the time comes.


70 posted on 12/12/2012 12:15:11 PM PST by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Mixed in


71 posted on 12/12/2012 12:28:57 PM PST by arkfreepdom
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To: Brandonmark

Now can everyone understand why white people are not keen to reproduce?


72 posted on 12/12/2012 12:29:05 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Eska
We call Alaska home, no Blks within 250 miles of my house, life is good.

Probably almost no Freepers can relate to this but I never went to public schools with a black or a brown. And that included four years of college. Did I miss anything? I don't think so.

73 posted on 12/12/2012 12:45:52 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

North Carolina, with its huge population of descendants from slaves is 72 percent white, according to a 2011 estimate by U.S. Census. So, Connecticut, which was probably 95 percent white 50 years ago has turned blacker and browner than North Carolina. Curious.

In fact, North Carolina has been turning whiter due to immigration from the north (including Connecticut) and higher white birth rates. It has also been trending less conservative from an influx of Hispanics, still relatively small and northern liberals. But recently the GOP seems to have mastered the formula for political success and made huge gains in Congress this year and won the governorship. Both houses of the state legislature are GOP.


74 posted on 12/12/2012 12:49:38 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: reformedliberal

Well....according to wikipedia.com....WI is a whopping 83.3% non-hispanic white making it much more white than even MA or CT. California is sub-saharan Africa compared to WI!


75 posted on 12/12/2012 12:55:01 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: txrefugee
If Coulter is correct, and hispanics are increasingly the “takers” of society, then we are so damn screwed. I am no white supremacist, but recognize the classical liberal contribution to our established order that came from Europe. I recognize that Asians and other groups might even be more classical liberal than whites, but there is likely not enough of them to make up for the exploding black and hispanic populations. I really hate this whole racial politics stuff, but one cannot deny the entitlement culture that is prevalent in some ethnic groups.
76 posted on 12/12/2012 12:59:26 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: apillar

That is a nice narrative, but ignores the fact that Russia’s population is imploding faster than ours.


77 posted on 12/12/2012 1:01:04 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Brandonmark

Why are so many falling for the CBS propoganda?


78 posted on 12/12/2012 1:03:03 PM PST by what's up
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To: WashingtonSource

NC completely blew me away in 2008 voting for the Community Marxist. The home of Jesse Helms, my all time favorite US Senator.

But hey look, would believe that when I moved to CA it was still the heart of Reagan Country.

Even L.A. was a great place to live back when.....

Reagan was governor....

Yorty was mayor...

Bill Parker then Daryl Gates were the police chiefs....

And get this....Bob Dornan was the congressman representing LA’s west side.....this before he moved down to Orange County.

You see, the liberals ruin eveything they touch. L.A. and CA are no exception. What a pity!


79 posted on 12/12/2012 1:05:28 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Brandonmark

Have more kids instead of more SUVs and vacation homes. Be fruitful and multiply.


80 posted on 12/12/2012 1:23:29 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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