[scottwww]

Whites will be U.S. minority group by 2042, Census predicts

By KAT GLASS • McClatchy Newspapers • August 13, 2008

WASHINGTON — In a few decades, all Americans will be minorities, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections to be released Thursday.
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Non-Hispanic whites will drop below half of the population as early as 2042, the projections show. That’s about 10 years earlier than demographers previously had predicted, said Grayson Vincent, a demographer for the Census Bureau.

Here’s what’s expected:

• Non-Hispanic whites, who are two-thirds of the population today, are older, dying off faster and producing fewer children than other groups, Vincent said. By 2050, they’ll number 203 million in a nation of 439 million.
• Hispanics are projected to triple by 2050, when they’ll be nearly a third (133 million) of the population. Spurring Hispanic growth is the group’s large natural increase — birth rate minus death rate — which Vincent attributed mainly to its youth and fertility. Immigration is an important but lesser factor, she said.
• The black population is projected to increase by just 1 percentage point, from 14% this year to 15% (66 million) in 2050. At that point, Hispanics will outnumber blacks by 2-to-1, the report said.
• The Asian population will grow from 5% to 9% of the population (41 million) by 2050, according to the projections.
• American Indians and Alaska Natives are projected to rise from 1.6% to 2% (9 million) of the population.

All the changes will show up first and fastest among children, less than half of whom will be non-Hispanic whites by 2023.

Policymakers need to start adapting now, demographers and race scholars said, especially in education.

“It’s a different kind of student body than we’ve known during the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s, when a lot of our education policies were shaped,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington research center.

“If we don’t invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won’t have a middle class,” said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. “We’ll have a very, very poor disposable class that’s largely black or brown.”

The face of America will look different, too.

“I think the American complexion will be a multiplicity of complexions rather than one complexion,” said Gilberto Cardenas, director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

The study predicts that the number of Americans who say they’re biracial or multiracial will more than triple from 5 million to 16 million people by 2050.

Some sociologists already have scrapped “minority” for terms such as “dominant” and “nondominant group” to discuss race and ethnicity, Sawyer said.

Noting a recent poll in which half of whites opposed federal aid to minorities, Cardenas’ colleague John Koval joked that they should think twice. “Pretty soon they’re going to be the minority,” he said.

[NJE93M3]

this should stir up some interesting responses...i'm gonna sit back for now

[BayAreaE92]

Only 66 million of us? I always thought there would be more than that

Especially with R&B on our side.

[iatacs19]

Things may change by 2042, but you do know that America is 75.1% white as of the last 2000 census right?

It is so fucking retarded when white people panic that they will stop being the majority, it's fact of life in America, while this country is a melting pot, it is comprised mainly of "white" people. AND there is nothing wrong with that.

Data source:

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Now, let's go back to discussing oil and stock prices.

[888]

Cool! so we (whites) will then qualify for affirmative action and other benefits! I can’t wait!

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by 888

Cool! so we (whites) will then qualify for affirmative action and other benefits! I can’t wait!

Right.

[Whostheboss]

NO worries by then an astroid will hit the Earth and we'll all vanish

[satakal]

I don't see why this is news worthy. So what? Let Rush evangelize about how he's a victim more. Just a news blurb to fill 1/4 hours imo.
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[Couch]

Who the fuck cares? Let's fucking quit equating and chalking up every single thing to race and who there is more of.

[Sara]

Im already the minority in New Orleans

[im spencer]

This is skewed what about the growing population of individuals who are partially white, interracial relations are growing exponentially

[!Xoible]

like finally!!!!

edit: btw this thread is racist to begin with (based on race, i mean) it's hard not to sound racist when u reply

[scottwww]

I am 1/16th Cherokee. So I am multi-ethnic.

[!Xoible]

you white people gotta start fucking more dude... this 0.5-1 child per family gonna make u distinct yo.... tsk tsk tsk

[OO---OO]

My car is Blue.

[scottwww]

Originally Posted by ///Mantis

you white people gotta start fucking more dude... this 0.5-1 child per family gonna make u distinct yo.... tsk tsk tsk

I was part of the baby boom. I have 7 brothers and 4 sisters. They don't do it like that anymore. Birth control put a stop to it.

[iatacs19]

Originally Posted by ///Mantis

you white people gotta start fucking more dude... this 0.5-1 child per family gonna make u distinct yo.... tsk tsk tsk

yeah, they need to start fucking a shitload more... where is all that viagra going?

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Originally Posted by scottwww

I was part of the baby boom. I have 7 brothers and 4 sisters. They don't do it like that anymore. Birth control put a stop to it.

i guess it's not a bad thing. this country will be interesting to see run by the coloreds.

Originally Posted by iatacs19

yeah, they need to start fucking a shitload more... where is all that viagra going?

that, unfotuntely, is used by old white men cheating on their wives and families with a 20 year old filipina or vietnamese chick. product isnt white

so whites will be receiving food stamps now?

[iatacs19]

Originally Posted by ///Mantis

that, unfotuntely, is used by old white men cheating on their wives and families with a 20 year old filipina or vietnamese chick. product isnt white

[Couch]

Originally Posted by ///Mantis

you white people gotta start fucking more dude... this 0.5-1 child per family gonna make u distinct yo.... tsk tsk tsk

You can fuck a dude if you want. I'm sticking with chicks.

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Originally Posted by Couch

You can fuck a dude if you want. I'm sticking with chicks.

i guess punctuation is important from time to time, huh? good call

[iatacs19]

Shit, maybe that's why white people are only averaging 0.5-1.0 child per couple...