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-Cp
08-14-2008, 02:23 PM
It's no wonder - all too many "White families" are more concerned with their monthly income than having more kids... "Oh, we could never have more than our 2.4 kids - if we did that then the Mrs. would have to stop working!"...

sigh..

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.

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.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080814/D92HVBHO1.html

JohnDoe
08-14-2008, 03:26 PM
many hispanics are white, so this is a little confusing....leaving those whites out of the picture by just talking about non hispanic whites?

Kathianne
08-14-2008, 03:27 PM
Who cares? It really doesn't bother me. It will differ from country to country. In most areas it's socio-economic anyways.

I'm used to being a minority, blue eyes and all that.

Yurt
08-14-2008, 03:29 PM
can white people then get minority government contracts...

Trigg
08-14-2008, 03:40 PM
many hispanics are white, so this is a little confusing....leaving those whites out of the picture by just talking about non hispanic whites?

Very true, another article I read points that out. I'm not sure why the census seperates hispanics anyway, it's not a race. With all of the Cameron Diaz's, Christina Aguleras (sp?) and Gisele Bouchen's out there people should realize this. Half of the "hispanics" in this country identify as white and don't speak Spanish anyway.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/14/america/census.php



All the projections are subject to changing cultural definitions. The share of Americans who identify themselves as white, regardless of their ethnicity, will remain largely unchanged, declining from less than 80 percent in 2010 to about 76 percent when the majority-minority benchmark is reached in 2042.