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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"further evidence white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades."
Which may explain the frenzied backlash from Republicans.
Census Benchmark for White Americans: More Deaths Than Births
Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that heralds profound demographic change.
The disparity was tiny only about 12,000 and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration from abroad.
But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic, black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades.
Over all, the number of non-Hispanic white Americans is expected to begin declining by the end of this decade.
The disparity was tiny only about 12,000 and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration from abroad.
But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic, black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades.
Over all, the number of non-Hispanic white Americans is expected to begin declining by the end of this decade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/census-benchmark-for-white-americans-more-deaths-than-births.html?src=me&ref=general
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"further evidence white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades." (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Jun 2013
OP
I have always thought that if civilization lasts long enough, most people will be the same color.
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2013
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Flashmann
(2,140 posts)1. white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades
Speaking as a 75%/25% white/ American INDIAN mixed breed,I say it can't come soon enough and that I regret that I probably won't live to see it and cheer it on.
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)2. I have always thought that if civilization lasts long enough, most people will be the same color.
It's just simple genetics that those with dominant genes, such as dark hair and brown eyes, will pass those characteristics on to their offspring. When that happens, humanity will have to find something else to be bigoted about.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)4. Humans always find things to fight about
No matter our color or language, we are tribal at our core and will always make someone "the other" whenever we feel threatened.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)3. Minority is NOT an ethnicity!! Whites wont become a minority they will still have the MOST in us pop