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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:13AM (4 children)

    I put down "American" for race on the last Census cause fuck em for even asking. Which is sort of like the recipe for gumbo. i.e. "Yeah, throw some of that in there."

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by sshelton76 on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:38AM (2 children)

    by sshelton76 (7978) on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:38AM (#837800)

    I agree. The fact we are trying to implement racial division in our country is bothersome to me.

    We used to be a melting pot. It's reflected in our food choices if nothing else.
    People would come here and they would assimilate, but it was a two way street, we would get some of theirs and they would get some of ours.

    Now it's different. I've talked with immigrants and refugees and they do want to assimilate, but the message they are getting from our culture is "go back where you came from" instead of "Welcome to our country, please wipe your feet on the mat on your way in".

    Immigration is what really made this country great. Most of the great inventors and scientists of the past 200 years either were immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants.
    I look forward to a day when skin color is held in the same regard as hair color.

    Except for gingers of course because everyone knows they have no soul.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:19PM (1 child)

      Except for gingers of course because everyone knows they have no soul.

      I used to think that but this guy [youtube.com] changed my mind. He ain't no Aretha but he's got a small but undeniable amount of soul.

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:34PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:34PM (#837845) Journal
        He must of stolen it from someone. Probably a brunette. Those don't have much to give.
  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:15PM

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:15PM (#837809) Journal

    I've always put Human