[FairOpinion]

They should open up immigration to white people too, before we become a minority.

[Kuksool]

As small as Asian voters are, they are the bellwhether of US politics.

[NewRomeTacitus]

We (caucasions) are doomed by the relatively new power of birth control technology. Spend your time trying to set down your stories on sturdy mediums.

[JohnnyZ]

The population of Hispanic- and Asian-Americans rose in nearly every state over the 1990's, in large part as a result of immigration.

WELCOME TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[usadave]

The population of Hispanic- and Asian-Americans rose in nearly every state over the 1990's, in large part as a result of immigration.

Both legal and illegal immigration.

[FITZ]

People who identified themselves only as "white"

I used to check white --- but I won't check "non-hispanic-white" -- that's too phoney so if that's the only category I check "other". More and more I like the "other" category. The whole racial categories thing is getting pretty silly.

[LadyDoc]

this is our family...

we are all mixed up, Hispanic and Asians of various degrees. The Filippinos have Spanish blood, the South Americans have white blood, and the grandchildren are so mixed up it's hard to tell.

Heck, my son in law and myself are the only pure "whites" in the family, the rest are an amalgamation. We just upset the census bureau's racist comments.

But we are at home in Oklahoma, where many people have Indian blood, and you find blond "whites" and dark "blacks" at the local Indian clinic. Heck, if you know your trivia, there was a Cherokee general in the Confederacy, so it's nothing new.

[SunkenCiv]

The key is to keep all those affirmative action / EEO rules on the books. The US is the place to live, for many reasons, and we need to assimilate everyone who arrives, not ghetto-ize 'em. The US is likely to remain the place to live, for many reasons. The only groups who should be banned from immigrating are Moslems. They messed it up, they can live in it.

China's and India's population (moreso the former) are skewed toward male children due to "family planning" in those countries. In China, the limit is one child, and this has been in effect for a few decades. The estimate is 40 million surplus men almost all of them under 35 years of age. That's military age. India's lower birth rate is economic and political in origin, and future girls are identified and aborted -- except among India's 150 million Moslems, who will trend upward as a percentage of population unless something happens (like a civil war, which is likely anyway).

Neither country can sustain its high population, but it will get ugly as it comes down and no one is around to care for the aging bachelors. Generally, China's will halve every generation, leading to a 2100 AD population of something under 300 million. By that time, the US population will be over a billion (probably well over a billion, maybe two billion) and we'll still be driving, shooting guns, drinking alcohol, and burning hydrocarbons, as well as enjoying a natural climate and the Atlantic City boardwalk.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[Freebird Forever]

They should open up immigration to white people too, before we become a minority.

There are many people living in the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Chech Republic, etc who would make fine Americans.

[KC_for_Freedom]

They should open up immigration to white people too, before we become a minority.

Due to the immigration bill of 1962, immigration in any future year is based on the races of the immigrants of the previous year. Asians and hispanics have "gamed" the system by having large families of "cousins" back in the homeland and these people are given priority. Recently, Kennedy, who sponsored the '62 bill had congress pass a special quota for the folk in Ireland, without which they would have faced a logjam due to the way the bill works. Changing the law would be a good idea, except that congress does not want to re-address the issue, because the people are to a great extant dissappointed with the state of immigration.

BTW, the "explosive" growth in population has had one desired effect, social security will not go bankrupt as early as previously thought. This is one of the reasons congress does not want to change things, it is getting them out of some fiscal trouble, plus the democrats think they are getting more voters, and republicans think they are getting more low income workers for industry.