White Americans no longer a majority by 2042

[Perky]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-White-Minority.html

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 13, 2008
Filed at 9:23 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.

The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.

It is also growing older.

''The white population is older and very much centered around the aging baby boomers who are well past their high fertility years,'' said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. ''The future of America is epitomized by the young people today. They are basically the melting pot we are going to see in the future.''

The Census Bureau Thursday released population projections through 2050, based on rates for births, deaths and immigration. They are subject to big revisions, depending on immigration policy, cultural changes and natural or manmade disasters.

The U.S. has nearly 305 million people today. The population is projected to hit 400 million in 2039 and 439 million in 2050.

That's like adding all the people from France and Britain, said Steve A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington group that advocates tighter immigration policies.

White non-Hispanics make up about two-thirds of the population, but only 55 percent of those younger than 5.

By 2050, whites will make up 46 percent of the population and blacks will make up 15 percent, a relatively small increase from today. Hispanics, who make up about 15 percent of the population today, will account for 30 percent in 2050, according to the new projections.

This does not bode well for the GOP at all.

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[supernova]

2. I'll be 80 then

:7

[RC]

3. I'll be a young 98.

[Faygo Kid]

4. 91 then. Goodbye.

I want to leave a better world, and will continue to work to do so. But this is an inevitability I worry not about.

[Lisa0825]

5. Good.

As a white chick, I love diversity! :)

Plus, I am in Texas, and we are way ahead of the curve in that department.

[vaberella]

6. I don't know if I agree with that. Especially if we consider the new system of classing

system for Latinos....ie White Hispanic versus non-white Hispanic which says to me this is almost like an inadvertent white by default. Of course this may be a bit reaching, but I was feeling this just might be an in.

But yeah the GOP won't like it, but I'll be too old to enjoy it...

[uponit7771]

7. Another racist ass'd scare tactic by the AP, mathematically whites skinned people will ALWAYS out...

...number this nations minorities mostly because blacks and hispanics have to have 3 - 4 children PER HOUSEHOLD just to break even in 40 years!!!

That's a lot of screwin!!!

Historically it's been hard to out screw white folk (my own personal observation) just look at the number of babies born after WWII (my empirical data that establishes my observation)!!!

The AP has shown itself to be in the bag for McSame for a while so I'm not surprised this racist shit is coming from them.

Thx

[supernova]

8. Um. no it's no big conservo conspiracy

It's a social pheonmenon we've known about for only the last oh 40-30 years.

It's a good thing too, because then we can become a truely diverse, meritocratic society.