Census: Minorities Surpass Whites In U.S. Births

[kpete]

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Source: NPR

Census: Minorities Surpass Whites In U.S. Births
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

text size A A A May 17, 2012
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the U.S.

"This is an important landmark," said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University. "This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders."

The report comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the legality of a strict immigration law in Arizona, with many states weighing similar get-tough measures.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152892912/census-minorities-surpass-whites-in-u-s-births?ft=1&f=1001

[NYC_SKP]

1. Maybe, one day, they'll stop sorting us and counting how many are in each pile.

Maybe, but not likely.

[my2sense]

2. I wonder how many

right wing heads are exploding from this news.

[RKP5637]

4. They have so many people, minorities, religions, sexual orientation,

countries, etc., etc., on their hate list, even the huge IBM computer Watson could not track their hatred of just about everything. There heads have to be exploding by now.

[RKP5637]

3. Whites have treated minorities so extremely well over the years that

they should rejoice in becoming the minority of the land.

[itsrobert]

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