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alp227

(32,454 posts)
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:06 AM May 2012

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.

Last edited Fri May 18, 2012, 11:45 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: NY Times

After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history.

Such a turn has been long expected, but no one was certain when the moment would arrive — signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration.

While over all, whites will remain a majority for some time, the fact that a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority has broad implications for the country’s economy, its political life and its identity. “This is an important tipping point,” said William H. Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution, describing the shift as a “transformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized multiethnic country that we are becoming.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?pagewanted=all



Don't try looking up this story on certain other message boards.

(ETA) And you wonder why people like John Derbyshire are more then eager to use pointy hoods instead of dog whistles:

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Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. (Original Post) alp227 May 2012 OP
As a new white minority, I have to say.......... thelordofhell May 2012 #1
Pop! Pop! POP! TheDebbieDee May 2012 #2
Post removed Post removed May 2012 #3
oh the teabagger pot will be boilin' over this one azurnoir May 2012 #4
I think race will be an antiquated concept in the US in three generations time. napoleon_in_rags May 2012 #5
What's a White? Xipe Totec May 2012 #6
Post removed Post removed May 2012 #7
Try 500 Xipe Totec May 2012 #8
I believe this is a big reason for the anti-woman shit going on. MrSlayer May 2012 #9
You have made some very good points IMO goclark May 2012 #13
I think you may be onto something. It might even be unconscious to RKP5637 May 2012 #20
Louis CK - Being White joshcryer May 2012 #10
yes!! may there be great unity between People/s of Color! nofurylike May 2012 #11
ROFL at that impression Cenk did of Derbyshire in Egypt... Poll_Blind May 2012 #12
What? progressoid May 2012 #15
This is the real driver today's politics SpartanDem May 2012 #14
Including White Trash...... Burma Jones May 2012 #19
Yep, I think that's behind a lot of it, and the black guy in the WH just intensifies RKP5637 May 2012 #21
Okay. closeupready May 2012 #16
"pat Herman Cain on the head and say, good job, raisin in the bun!" Enrique May 2012 #17
! Rozlee May 2012 #22
Time to get past identity politics and on to Class Warfare Burma Jones May 2012 #18
Similar to Europe. Beacool May 2012 #23
 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
2. Pop! Pop! POP!
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:18 AM
May 2012

That's the sound of freeper heads exploding all over America...........Their darkest nightmare has come to pass.

Response to alp227 (Original post)

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
4. oh the teabagger pot will be boilin' over this one
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:20 AM
May 2012

but it was quite inevitable the US is in an era of non-white immigration and has been for quite some time , America has always been a work in progress and this is part of that progress, it will change and evolve what is seen as America and American culture in the future, no matter how hard it may be resisted from some quarters

napoleon_in_rags

(3,992 posts)
5. I think race will be an antiquated concept in the US in three generations time.
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:23 AM
May 2012

So many people I know have married across racial lines, we have a president of mixed race. Cultural and ideological divisions will persist, but as the lines continue to blur I don't see how the idea of race and can meaningfully persist.

Xipe Totec

(44,038 posts)
6. What's a White?
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:25 AM
May 2012

I've yet to meet one, even though I'm classified as one, I look at myself and see some pinkish flesh, a little tanned, a few freckles and liver spots here and there....

White?

What the Fuck does that mean anyway?


Especially when you are an Iberian Hispanic, like I am, with 500 years of history in what is now Mexico?



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Xipe Totec

(44,038 posts)
8. Try 500
Thu May 17, 2012, 01:06 AM
May 2012

This is the second renaissance.

The one that occurred in Europe 500 years ago, after the plague.

It has taken the native population of the American continent 500 years to absorb, assimilate, and overcome the onslaught of diseases coming from the old world. But now, they are ready....

Now, finally, they have acquired the resistance to the diseases that came from the old world....

Now they are ready to retake, repopulate, and reclaim their ancestral land.

What happened 1000 years ago in Europe, happened 500 years ago in the New World...

Now, finally, they are ready...

Now, finally, we are ready...

To become one race again...

The human Race...

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
9. I believe this is a big reason for the anti-woman shit going on.
Thu May 17, 2012, 01:11 AM
May 2012

The "White Race" will be a minority and they don't want that.

That's why unprotected sex must go on everywhere, that's why there can be no sex education and that's why there must be no abortion.

They figure the Latinos and Blacks will still have significantly higher infant mortality rates and shorter lifespans to balance it out. But more white babies is the main goal, particularly in the heartland and the south.

They're scared to death because they expect everyone to be as horrible as they are.


goclark

(30,404 posts)
13. You have made some very good points IMO
Thu May 17, 2012, 06:57 AM
May 2012


Have you noticed that the Rethugs have not backed down one ounce on giving Rights to Women?

How can they be so mean spirited!

As a Woman and a Minority it makes me upset that in the year 2012 our country can not value all races.



RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
20. I think you may be onto something. It might even be unconscious to
Thu May 17, 2012, 09:00 AM
May 2012

them, their reasons for their onslaught against women. In this state the gov. wants making babies to be a top priority, seriously. He wants to do everything possible to marry up singles, well, not LGBT, of course. As many have said, his dream is uneducated barefoot women running around pregnant.

nofurylike

(8,775 posts)
11. yes!! may there be great unity between People/s of Color!
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:23 AM
May 2012

you will have my vote!

thank you for posting that magnificent news, alp227!

Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)
12. ROFL at that impression Cenk did of Derbyshire in Egypt...
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:36 AM
May 2012


Reminded me of some of the digs Robert Graves gets in at Europe/UK in the I, Claudius series.

PB

SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
14. This is the real driver today's politics
Thu May 17, 2012, 07:02 AM
May 2012

white conservatives can't stand the changes in the country and no longer support the civil society we've built and are trying to undo it. All this talk about small government and founding principles is just code for "I don't want my taxes paying for things that those lazy {insert racial slur} use"

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
21. Yep, I think that's behind a lot of it, and the black guy in the WH just intensifies
Thu May 17, 2012, 09:04 AM
May 2012

their hatred. God are white conservatives, well, any conservative, horrible.

Burma Jones

(11,760 posts)
18. Time to get past identity politics and on to Class Warfare
Thu May 17, 2012, 08:16 AM
May 2012

The largest ethnic segment of the American Underclass is....wait for it.....WHITE.

Beacool

(30,295 posts)
23. Similar to Europe.
Thu May 17, 2012, 10:52 PM
May 2012

Europeans in some countries have a negative birth rate, except for immigrants who are procreating at a much faster rate.

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