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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: 3, Insightful) by inertnet on Thursday May 02 2019, @10:36AM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Thursday May 02 2019, @10:36AM (#837778) Journal

    and I always thought white was lazy for Caucasian. Even in the most backwards, racist 1700s, no one ever thought for Spaniards to be non-white.

    To me not only 'Hispanic' sounds strange, because people are meant that are not from Spain, but also Caucasian sounds weird because only a small minority of people actually are from the Caucasus.

    In the current era of oversensitive melanin wars, I expect that the term 'Hispanic' will be replaced soon, because it stands for "descendants of people colonized by Spaniards".

    Finally, fighting over race is extremely stupid and wasteful, because nobody can be held responsible for the DNA that they're born with. It's just as silly as condemning people for hereditary conditions.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:05PM (#838016)

    "but also Caucasian sounds weird because only a small minority of people actually are from the Caucasus."

    the Caucasus is where the Caucasoids are believed to have originated, spawning all the sub races and cultures considered to be caucasoid, including Aryan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race) hamitic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamites

    ) and semitic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Semitic-speaking_peoples).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @07:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @07:20PM (#838056)

      Where is your citation for the Ancient Ham-speaking people?