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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @09:33AM (2 children)
What makes you associate this with the alt-right? It's the sort of thing the globalist left loves to brag about.
The submission itself is dry facts. You're reading more into it. That shows your own bias.
Also, FWIW, the alt-right got badly smeared by both the left and by groups (religious right, libertarian right) competing for control of the republican party. I suppose at this point it's like Richard Stallman defending the non-malicious use of the word "hacker", but the alt-right is not what you imply it to be. It's just people who want to put America first, and that has nothing to do with race. It's plain nationalism. It's about a shared culture (language, dietary restrictions, clothing restrictions, honesty/corruption, government/individualism) and about teaming up together for a common defense and for the generation of prosperity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:51PM
VLM posting anon.
What 'shared' culture does exist between German and British? Last I checked it hasn't been 100 years since both fought and brought the world to the brink of destruction. Of course, the people who actually fought the most in those wars were non-White.
You racist shits won't spend an iota effort in reading actual history because then you will have to say that racism is wrong. Seriously, what exactly you mean by "shared culture"? Literally, list the traits of the culture.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:30PM
Jesus, did a portal open up to 1920?