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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:02AM (#837788)

    Cultural Marxist Left: "White" people don't even exist!

    also Cultural Marxist Left: "Old White Cis Gendered Men are responsible for all the world's evils!"

    Nation of Islam: "Die white!"

    Sorry, the census form says "White, Black, Hispanic". Black doesn't exist if White doesn't. There's no checkbox for Bantu or Australian Aboriginal. Just like there's no check box for Celt vs Nord.

    By convention White means Light Skinned people European Descent, and is one of the most genocided groups in the world, who now make up only 8% of the world's population.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @06:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @06:37AM (#838327)

    Islam does not need to kill all of the whites. They can breed them out of existence by force.

    Great Britain is in the throes of a Muslim rape and pedophilia epidemic unlike anything the country has experienced in living memory. Many of the sex crimes are being perpetrated by Muslim child grooming gangs responsible for drugging, raping and torturing hundreds and possibly thousands of British girls.
    But another wave of sex crimes involves predatory Muslim taxi drivers who are raping female passengers. The number of so-called taxi rapes is snowballing to such an extent that a British judge has issued a warning that no woman can expect to be safe while traveling in a cab.
    Moreover, according to a report entitled, “Ending Violence against Women and Girls in the UK,” published by the Home Office in March 2013, only around one in ten women who experience serious sexual assault report it to the police. As a result, one can infer that the actual number of taxi rapes across Britain as a whole is far greater than many are willing to admit.
    A PARTIAL LIST
    In a recent case in London that was reported by national newspapers, Mohamed Hacene-Chaouch, 46, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 24-year-old female passenger in his unlicensed taxi. In Windsor, Anshul Sharma was charged with raping a 19-year-old woman who mistook his car for a legitimate taxi.
    In Blackburn on July 9, Talib Hussain, 62, was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, a passenger in his taxi.
    In Blackpool on July 8, Turkish-born Fatih Top, 38, was charged with raping an 18-year-old woman who was a passenger in his cab.
    In Shrewsbury on July 6, Ahmet Baser, 34, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for raping an underage girl in his taxi.
    In Nottingham on June 12, police said they were looking for an “Asian” (Muslim) taxi driver who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old passenger in his cab.
    In Berkshire on May 21, Arshad Arif, 28, appeared at the Reading Crown Court on charges of raping a 17-year-old passenger twice.
    In Oldham on May 16, Tamur Yaqub, 32, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl in the back of his car.
    In Hemel Hempstead on May 7, Mashain Pitchei, 45, was sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 20-year-old female passenger.
    In Heaton on April 11, Mohammed Akram, 35, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in his taxi.
    In Manchester on February 18, Elhadi Sakhri, 42, was sentenced to seven years and ten months for two counts of raping men who were passengers in his taxi.
    In London on February 6, police said they were looking for an “Asian” (Muslim) man accused of sexually assaulting three women in the Canning Town district.
    In Leeds on January 9, Mohammed Shahin, 28, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 20-year-old passenger who fell asleep in his taxi as he drove her home.
    In Accrington, Mohammed Ishaq, 38, was accused of raping a 35-year-old female passenger after taking her home.
    Also in Accrington, Mohammed Baig, 45, was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old passenger.
    In Billingham, Khalile Maqsood, 31, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for abducting and raping a 20-year-old female passenger at knifepoint.
    In East Sussex, Abul Malik, 29, was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old female passenger.
    In Edinburgh, Ibrahim Selman fled Scotland after raping a woman and assaulting several others while working as a taxi driver.
    In Hull, Masoud Rahimi, 37, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old female passenger.
    In London, Salam Rahman, 27, and Mohammed Elahi, 26, were jailed for nine years for gang-raping two female passengers, one of whom was a 26-year-old newlywed.
    In Clapham, south London, Atiq Rehman, 20, tricked a 22-year-old woman into thinking he was a legitimate taxi driver. Rehman, an illegal immigrant from Pakistan who was twice refused asylum in Britain, raped the woman for 45 minutes while asking her how many children she wanted to have.
    At King’s Cross in central London, police said they were looking for a Turkish cab driver who raped an 18-year-old passenger after driving her to a remote location. After the attack, he took her to Gloucester Place in Westminster where he pushed her from his vehicle and left her lying in a gutter.
    In Manchester, Shahjahan Islam was sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 27-year-old female passenger. DNA recovered from the woman led officers to identify Islam as the suspect.
    In Newport, South Wales, Asif Iqbal, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping two female passengers on late-night rides home.
    In Portsmouth, Muhammed Hasan, 35, was accused of locking a 19-year-old woman with learning disabilities into his cab and sexually assaulting her.
    In St. Helens, Mazish Muzaffar, 43, was charged with assaulting a female passenger in his taxi.
    In Sheffield, Zahoor Mahmood, 40, was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting two female passengers.
    In Teesside, Pakistani-born Liaqat Ali, 42, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 16-year-old passenger as she dozed off drunk in his taxi. Ali — a married father of four — stopped for the girl in Middlesbrough and drove her to a secluded spot, where he attacked her. Ali admitted to picking the victim up but denied anything had happened. Once results of DNA evidence were obtained, he admitted to having lied.