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Minority Births Are New Majority
WSJ ^ | 5-17-12 | Conor Dougherty

Posted on 05/17/2012 5:53:01 AM PDT by Dysart

For the first time in U.S. history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of newborn children, marking a demographic tipping point that is already changing the nation's politics, economy and workforce.

Among the roughly four million children born in the U.S. between July 2010 and July 2011, 50.4% belonged to a racial or ethnic group that in previous generations would have classified them as minorities, up from 48.6% in the same period two years earlier, the Census Bureau said Thursday. That was the first 12-month stretch in which non-Hispanic white children accounted for less than half the country's births.

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To: rarestia
I blame the feminist movement, personally. More women working into their 30s and pushing their biological clocks further and further. When they do have babies, they have one, maybe two. Three-plus-child households are rare among whites.
21 posted on 05/17/2012 6:36:26 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: rarestia
I blame the feminist movement, personally. More women working into their 30s and pushing their biological clocks further and further. When they do have babies, they have one, maybe two. Three-plus-child households are rare among whites.

. Yes, but prosperity brings it on also. These married couples choose not to have more than 1-3 kids.

22 posted on 05/17/2012 6:36:53 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: Dysart

Does that mean WE get to riot now?...........


23 posted on 05/17/2012 6:39:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: Gay State Conservative
In 50 years (or maybe less) the US will have become a Third World nation...all thanks to the immigration policies of the Rat Party,led by the likes of Ted Kennedy.

Not if they reject leftist ideology. That's determined by culture values, not racial identity, and those can be shaped. Rats invite them to the plantation, and work hard to keep them in place via the usual tactics such as manipulation through propaganda, judicial activism, entitlements, and class warfare plays mostly.

It doesn't have to be the way. This is our biggest cultural battle, to slay the forces of socialism by leading through example. But, if we fail in that, yeah, we're toast. I think that's why this election is so important. What does Obama have planned in four years where he doesn't have to misdirect/lie/subvert our constitutional values with another election looming? He'll appt another SC Justice, and then watch out.

24 posted on 05/17/2012 6:40:00 AM PDT by Dysart (2012: Year of the queer)
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To: trailhkr1

It’s a choice, because we want to provide our children with the best opportunity to advance in the world. We want our children to be our betters. We have 1-3 children, because that’s all that we can afford to support and maintain an adequate lifestyle.

Which makes me think: do these environmental whackos who think the world is overpopulated ever consider who is doing the actual overpopulation? They preach to whites as if to guilt us, but if they ever stopped to think and maybe review a report like this one, perhaps their heads would explode from the Liberal groupthink non sequitors.


25 posted on 05/17/2012 6:46:01 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Dysart

If you are a ‘Hispanic’ who doesn’t speak Spanish and looks vaguely white, what are you?


26 posted on 05/17/2012 6:46:56 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Dysart
Does this mean that “white minority children” are now eligible for all those preferences now given to other minorities? Will they be eligible for “affirmative action” programs, CHIP, Head start, etc? Being the cynic that I am I already know the answer, I'm just curious what their hypocritical explanation will be.
27 posted on 05/17/2012 6:48:18 AM PDT by derSchurfer (When the Rule of Law is ignored good citizens will take the law into their own hands.)
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To: Dysart

White women are too busy working to have children. Plus, it’s a lot of work to have and raise children and a sacrifice on one’s personal time. It’s so much easier going to Starbucks and kibbitzing with friends while drinking lattes, going shoppping, watching movies, talking on the cellphone, and blaming your problems on everyone else.

Let the third worlders do the heavy lifting!


28 posted on 05/17/2012 6:48:32 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Gaffer
Here's that short bus you ordered!


29 posted on 05/17/2012 6:50:27 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: rarestia

Feminists are a major cause. Abortion. Government incentives to breed for poor. Open borders and anchor babies.

Obama being elected signaled to rest of world U. S. was headed to Third World status. Obama policies accelerated it.


30 posted on 05/17/2012 6:56:27 AM PDT by TigerClaws (He)
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To: Gay State Conservative
In 50 years (or maybe less) the US will have become a Third World nation...

It'll be sooner than that, if the trajectory of the minority births is correct. I predict 2030.

31 posted on 05/17/2012 6:58:02 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: mkboyce

Excellent points. I also have to wonder how many more people are checking the “mixed race” box on various government forms since checking the “white” box has become the equivalent of wearing a “kick me” sign.


32 posted on 05/17/2012 6:58:55 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Dysart
If the third worlders weren't here taking up the slack for the lack of White children being born in the USA the fertility rate would be more like Europe, Russia or Japan with a corresponding population decline.


33 posted on 05/17/2012 6:59:01 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Let the third worlders do the heavy lifting!

They're quite happy to do just that, knowing the payoff they'll reap within 20-25 years.

34 posted on 05/17/2012 7:00:20 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: derSchurfer
Does this mean that “white minority children” are now eligible for all those preferences now given to other minorities?

Negative; those preferences were established in response to, and to remedy, historical "white privilege" and "oppression." And whites, the left-thinking goes, cannot be on the business end of it. So, no no special consideration for whitey regardless of the demographic breakdown. The rats set up the rules of this game. We're just pawns.

35 posted on 05/17/2012 7:01:05 AM PDT by Dysart (2012: Year of the queer)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

This is good news for CA. In the near future, there won’t be enough taxpayers to support all the gov’t workers needed to enforce all CA’s silly laws and regulations.


36 posted on 05/17/2012 7:02:12 AM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: mkboyce

“What are Hispanics, but an artificially concocted ‘minority’ ethnic group that consist in large part of white Europeans of Spanish and sometimes Portuguese ancestry.”

Ummm...for the most part, new Hispanics are Mexican. Poor Mexicans. With the values of poor people in Mexico who are suddenly being given money by their friends in the government.

Food stamps. Medicaid. Housing assistance. And if you want more money, have more babies...


37 posted on 05/17/2012 7:04:34 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That’s entirely correct. Whites need to look within first. Again, much of this is predicted by historical trends in an older, established population.


38 posted on 05/17/2012 7:06:15 AM PDT by Dysart (2012: Year of the queer)
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To: Vigilanteman

Even if it’s an outright lie, Elizabeth Warren has been checking the box that suits her best for 3 decades now.


39 posted on 05/17/2012 7:08:07 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Dysart

Maybe we can make a Herschel Walker-type trade.

Let’s swap California, and four states to be named later, to Canada for Alberta.


40 posted on 05/17/2012 7:15:51 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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