http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_go_ot/white_minority WASHINGTON - 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. Asians, which make up about 5 percent of the population, are projected to increase to 9 percent by 2050. The population 85 and older is projected to more than triple by 2050, to 19 million.
im not arguing im just saying how is it news now? Im pretty sure this has been known for a few years now. These dates are total BS. Does anyone really expect them to be accurate? The difference that immigration laws will make cannot be predicted.
We just to need to increase the rate of interracial marriage and subsequent breeding until we are all one color again. I'm doing my part, how about YOU?
They won't become a minority. They just won't be majority (>50%). White people will still be the largest race in terms of the population of the U.S. Atleast till 2042.
I posit the reason that the Republicans got a hard-on for illegal immigrants is that the demographic shift caused by the immigrants will hurt their chances in the Presidential race and some Congressional races. If Mexican immigrants voted strongly for Republicans (see Cubans), they would be falling all over themselves to facilitate the immigration. Thus, while demographic shift is not new, the consequences thereof can been seen in the political agendas of both national political parties.
There's a difference between not being the majority and being the minority. Whites will still have the plurality.
Half yall fools will be dead by then anyways. Ah hell who am I kidding, someone will have probably stabbed me too by then.
