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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: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 02 2019, @10:14AM (3 children)
Because the native Americans were just not human? Not counted by European census, and therefore non-existent?
Certainly, the first white man to set foot on the continent considered himself to be the racial majority, indeed the entirety of humanity on the continent, at least the ones that realized they weren't in China or India... but, do we continue that delusion today?
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @10:43AM (2 children)
Mostly dead from disease by then. We lost something like 90+% of our population from pre-colonization days to it before the US founding fathers were even born.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:07AM (1 child)
So MB is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlacKkKlansman [wikipedia.org]
However unlike that guy MB is not about to expose KKK but to actually further their agenda... The mind boggles. Maybe this is the same phenomenon that drives poor and middle class people give their votes for a 1% party? Maybe somehow it allows you to think of yourself as not a victim. As in "a willing person can never be raped" or some other insanity.
I'm sure some rich old white guys are laughing their asses off at this. Must help them feel vindicated.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:10AM
How exactly is saying the vast majority of my people died in the first hundred years of contact from diseases brought over by Europeans supporting the KKK?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.