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Don Baldwin
You believe EVERY number the government publishes?
You need to get out into the real world...outside the bubble...you'll see for yourself that white people are a minority now.
"The sweeping racial changes transforming the United States come with an important demographic dimension: age. The waves of Hispanics and Asians and multiracial Americans reshaping the country’s population are full of young people, who by some measures already outnumber their white counterparts. The trend was punctuated by the arrival in 2011 of the first “majority-minority” birth cohort, the first in which the majority of U.S. babies were nonwhite minorities. Consequently, the racial makeup of the nation’s younger population is beginning to contrast sharply with that of baby boomers and seniors.
For most of U.S. history, the white population has been viewed as “mainstream” society, with sociologists viewing the assimilation of immigrants and ethnic minorities as dependent on their adoption of its way of life.1 Not coincidentally, whites were the numerically dominant racial group in the United States during that same time. (Between 1790 and 1980, whites ranged from 80 to 90 percent of the population.) But whites’ tenure as America’s mainstream population is on the wane, in a demographic sense.
The most recent information from the census and elsewhere shows how quickly the shift is happening. From 2000 to 2010, a decade during which the white population as a whole grew by just 1.2 percent, the number of white children in the United States declined by 4.3 million. Meanwhile the child populations of Hispanics, Asians, and people of two or more races were increasing. In comparative terms, whites constituted just 53 percent of America’s young people (down from nearly 70 percent in 1990) while Hispanics constituted 23 percent (up from just 12 percent). Smaller white populations already are evident in institutions that serve youth, such as elementary and secondary schools, and census projections show the white child population continuing to decline for years to come. White children will become a minority of children under age 18 well before 2020, and, soon thereafter, the white population as a whole is projected to begin to decrease.
For most of the lifetime of today’s young people—nearly one-half of whom already are members of racial minorities—America’s white population will be shrinking."
White children are the minority now and have been for the last 7 years. We are losing the country...we are being bred out. And liberals are HAPPY about it. They have NO vision of the future they have wrought.
Five Graphics That Show Why a Post-White America Is Already Here | New Republic |
I
really appreciate your reasoned approach to the discussion. It is in refreshing contrast to those who just throw barbs, and ignore what is said by others.
You make interesting points, even if they are off topic. Sometimes the discussion simply evolves.
Having said that, I would now point out that there is a subtle shift in your argument. You started out talking about
race; you are now talking about
ethnicity.
What's the difference? Well, in the standards of the United States the major races include White, Black, and Asian. They collect information on Hispanic and Latino ethnicity, but do not consider it a race.
Other examples of ethnicity are people who are Americans, but identify themselves by the national origin of their ancestors, such as Italian-American, Irish-American, etc. The largest such demographic in the United States are those who identify themselves as German-American (according to census records.)
In America all of these groups with origins in Western Europe (including Spain) are considered White.
Now, if we can agree that you are actually discussing ethnicity and not race we may be approaching some agreement in this discussion. Note that
your graph is not about race, but about culture, which makes the separate category of Hispanic more appropriate.
In my travels with Presidents and Presidential Candidates, I have been to every state in the United States except Vermont, New Hampshire, and North Dakota. My experience has been that the culture, but not necessarily the racial composition, in heavily Hispanic or traditionally Hispanic areas tends to be Hispanic.
SO, perhaps we can agree that there is a cultural shift going on in the country. This was probably pioneered by Liberal college professors and Black activists who objected to study of material by and about "Dead White Europeans." Talking about Liberal Education in most of our colleges today is nonsense. It is indoctrination, not education.
But, having said that the culture is changing, I will continue to recognize the Census Report that states that the total White population is 72.4%.