Because you know, those poor blacks and hispanics are all so ignorant, that’s why we need to have more whites in this country.
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Since half of the country will be comprised of today's minorities by 2050 and half of children today ages 0-5 are minorities, that is our future whether we want it or not. The point is that our future will depend more and more on whether blacks and Hispanics succeed or not. If they are dropping out of school, having children out of wedlock, and comprising a much higher share of the prison population than their proportion of the general population, then as a nation, we should have some real concern about our future. Unfortunately, you can't discuss these issues rationally and unemotionally so you can develop a public policy to address these problems because you have jerks who want to make it an issue of racism.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate – even more than unbounded levels of immigration – will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades.
By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by midcentury, twice the current ratio.
It's the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country – over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly 1 ½ times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for unmarried white women, 22 for unmarried Asian women, and 66 for unmarried black women.
Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent for whites and 15 percent for Asians. Only the percentage for blacks – 68 percent – is higher. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.