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Source: BBC
For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, according to the US Census Bureau.
The agency projected that in the US, whites would become a minority in the under-five age group this year or next.
The 2012 data also found that for the first time in more than a century, there were more deaths than births among white Americans.
The “natural decrease” occurred several years earlier than forecast, it said.
The government figures also project that in five years, minorities will make up more than half of children under 18.
The Census Bureau expects further decline among the white population as aging baby-boomers die.
The latest findings come a year after the census reported that whites had fallen to a minority among babies in the US.
Minority populations are growing faster than the white community due to high birth rates, especially in the Hispanic community, as well as immigration.
But the white American population is still seeing small increases because of immigration from Europe, the data shows.
The Census Bureau said 63% of Americans were white and non-Hispanic. Read further
Categories: Americas, Universal Brotherhood
Why is the census persisting in calling them ‘minorities’ when they are slowly becoming a majority?
And since when and why is the census so stuck on ‘whites’? After all Americans in general were all ‘immigrants’ at some point in time. The only natives are the American Indians who are non-white.
So, what is the big deal about whites becoming a minority, soon? Does it matter?
All would be citizens of the USA, wouldn’t they?
Watch out for reverse discrimination!!
How about being paid back in your own coin!!
I hope that never happens, though.