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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:29PM (9 children)
What the article assumes but doesn't outright say: "If current trends continue."
Current trends rarely continue.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:00PM (1 child)
True but this one has since I was a kid. I saw essentially the same article back when I was a teenager in the 90s. I'm still of the same opinion on it now that I was then, which is "Huh. That's mildly interesting."
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:29PM
I started reading articles in Newsweek and Time about it when I was in junior highschool in the mid 80's. Demographers have been talking about it for a long time. We're now 30 years closer to that tipping point.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:16PM (4 children)
Look for the trend to accelerate as it has built momentum over the last 50 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:51PM (3 children)
Can't wait until humanity is mostly mutts, all these purebreds do is cause problems. Anyone have statistics on human "inter breeding" trends?
(Score: 2) by J053 on Friday May 03 2019, @01:23AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday May 03 2019, @02:01PM
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 03 2019, @06:32PM
Bad idea. Not least because the enforcement of it would be impossible. That's the same kind of eugenics bullshit the Nazis tried, in spirit if not in aim.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:16PM (1 child)
Yeah, I'm smelling a lot of assumption coming off this summary. In my book "soon" is not "25 years"; soon is "the next couple years."
You know what else is 25 years out? Cold fusion and flying cars. /s
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:36PM
Also, I'm a white guy living in New Mexico. While we certainly have our share of non-Anglos, I have a hard time believing they are more than half the population here. Are we sure their statistics aren't fudged somehow?