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posted by martyb on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-various-definitions-of-"soon" dept.

Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the Colonial period, the U.S. has been predominantly white.

But the white share of the U.S. population has been dropping, from a little under 90% in 1950 to 60% in 2018. It will likely drop below 50% in another 25 years.

White nationalists want America to be white again. But this will never happen. America is on its way to becoming predominantly non-white.

The U.S. federal government uses two questions to measure a person's race and ethnicity. One asks if the person is of Hispanic origin, and the other asks about the person's race.

A person is defined as white if he or she identifies as being only white and non-Hispanic. A minority, or nonwhite, person is anyone who is not solely non-Hispanic white.

[...] Whites were not the first people to settle in what is now the U.S. The first immigrants were a people known today as American Indians and Alaskan natives, also commonly referred to as Native Americans. They arrived in North America around 14,000 years ago.

When Christopher Columbus arrived in America in 1492, there were around 10 million American Indians living in the lands north of Mexico. But by the 1800s their numbers had dwindled to about 1 million. They are now the smallest race group in the U.S.

The first sizable stream of immigrants to what is now the U.S. were whites from England. Their arrival at Plymouth in 1620 in search of religious freedom marked the start of large waves of whites coming to this land.

When the U.S. was established as a country in 1776, whites comprised roughly 80% of the population. The white share rose to 90% in 1920, where it stayed until 1950.

[...] Although the majority of the U.S. population today is still white, non-whites account for more than half of the populations of Hawaii, the District of Columbia, California, New Mexico, Texas and Nevada. And, in the next 10 to 15 years, these half dozen "majority-minority" [PDF] states will likely be joined by as many as eight other states where whites now make up less than 60% of the population.

Census Bureau projections show that the U.S. population will be "majority-minority" sometime between 2040 and 2050. Our research suggests that this will happen around 2044. Indeed, in 2020, there are projected to be more non-white children than white children in the U.S.

Source: phys.org; original at The Conversation.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:20AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:20AM (#837720)

    A dog-whistle is something only one side recognizes. This is anything but that.

    It's factual. Everybody seems to agree that it is happening: the left, the right, libertarians, communists, democrats, republicans, conservatives, liberals, etc.

    So it can't be a dog-whistle. We may disagree on if the facts are desirable, undesirable, or unimportant.

    For example, if you want to preserve culture, then this is a disaster. If you actually want multiple distinct and interesting cultures, this is a disaster. It all gets mushed together, and/or white people just get wiped out.

    It is notable that white people have always been a tiny minority of the world. They habitually care about non-white people, but this is almost never reciprocated. The non-whites seem eager to dance on the graves of the whites. A current example is the rapidly deteriorating situation in South Africa, with government-sanctioned violence. (following in the footsteps of Zimbabwe)

    In recent years, the left has taken to denying that non-whites can be racist. This is to counter the damning evidence that whites are the least-racist group in America today.

    We see ridiculous stuff like claims that all-black groups are diverse. We see complaints demanding that the US should be less white, but none that any place should be less non-white. It's always a demand that white people cede their land, but never a demand that non-white people cede theirs. It's all one-sided.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:43AM (#837728)

    You fucking dog! Probably a female dog! Biatch! Your kind are done with, obsolete, archaic, old-fashioned, and white! All hail the White genocide! We will all be better for it, even the "white" people.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:44PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:44PM (#837891)

    Just because something is a fact doesn't mean you don't have an ugly agenda when you're bringing it up.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 03 2019, @12:50AM (1 child)

      True but not wanting it ever stated under any circumstances absolutely does mean you have an ugly agenda that requires its cover-up.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @05:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @05:50PM (#838477)

        And no one advocated that, nice straw man you knocked down. People are saying the article is not fit for a "news for nerds stuff that matters" discussion, and given the context of underlying racism around here (oh sorry, CULTURAL PRIDE) the article isn't some sort of free speech litmus test.

        Your dissembling here is a tacit approval of the bigoted users.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:07PM (#837979)
    Yes, but they also redefine words. For example Diversity does not mean a little bit of everything, it means "anything not white." To diversify a workforce is to restrict the hiring of whites. Whites tend to not whine about this much other than to call it out for what it is. In some cases "Diversity" is more sinister up to and including intentions to "kill the white babies" ala Black Panthers.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:35PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:35PM (#838004)

      The legislature here in WA just legalized discrimination against Whites and Asians in the name of diversifying the public sector. Granted, they don't say that they're doing that, they're just allowing public institutions to take race into consideration as one of the factors.

      I'm still unclear as to how it is that this isn't going to result in lower standards for the other groups or other forms of discrimination against Whites and Asians. Also unclear is how it is that Asians were able to overcome racism enough to not need the help, but Africans and Hispanics are apparently unable to.

      The whole thing is massively racist and just reinforces the notion that certain groups are inferior.

      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:03AM

        by Reziac (2489) on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:03AM (#839110) Homepage

        If race doesn't exist, I'm wondering how they plan to determine which people get the affirmative hire. Maybe race only exists if you're white or Asian. Otherwise you're just oppressed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:17PM (#837989)

    yeah. white people even wrote books about it. like Time Machine, for instance.