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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: 1) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:46PM (9 children)
Is clickbait and flame wars more valuable to your enterprise than anything else?
Were you really expecting some kind of measured and informed debate on racial demographics and immigration policy?
I’d rather read one of those phony quantum computing puff pieces... Don’t send me back to Ars, please...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:57PM (2 children)
Aside from aristarchus, we've had a fairly decent one in my opinion. He was just quite loud today.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @09:41PM (1 child)
You realize you spam more than ari right? No surprise the hot irony is hardly noticed with all the hot air you produce.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:26AM
Press X to doubt
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:40PM (4 children)
I submit a lot of stories to the site. The pattern I've seen is when the story queue runs thin with tech and science stories, articles like this one are more likely to be promoted to the front page. The antidote to controversial articles like this is for more folks in the community to submit one or two tech/science articles per week; we have a diverse and widely read community, so that's something we can definitely handle.
For those who haven't submitted stories before and don't know what to do, there's an FAQ with best practices. The formula I use is to put the linked source first, blockquote a relevant paragraph or two from the article that conveys the gist, and some dumb geeky pun or question or snarky observation to get the conversation rolling (because the meat is in the conversation). It takes a couple minutes to put together.
So I hope that the reaction this article produced would, rather than lead sensitive readers to rage-quit, spur everyone to pitch in with submissions and as editors to make the information and discussions more robust.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:34PM (1 child)
I try to put in science and tech articles when I see them.
People hated the one about the mac pickle burger. I thought it was funny.
Maybe people should try putting in articles and see how they take.
My hump day one went through which was a surprise.
Tomorrow is another day.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 03 2019, @11:15AM
I can identify with that. I submitted a story last week on what would happen if California seceded; I thought it would be interesting to discuss given Silicon Valley's role in the US economy. But the article was declined, probably because the editors thought it would excite too much partisan rancor. They were probably right.
But most tech/science stories I submit are accepted, and that's light years away from Slashdot, where I was a fiercely loyal member for 20 years, which never accepted a single story I submitted. In other words, trying to help that site was a waste of my time.
It's not a waste of time here.
One last thought on the tech/science articles: you'll probably get them accepted, but don't be disappointed if people don't necessarily discuss them much. They do enjoy them and find them helpful, but sometimes the wags don't find aspects to latch onto. I find the topics that arouse the most discussion are novel technologies ("Soon ocean freighters will float on a cloud of hagfish slime!") or delve into the minutiae of web/linux tech. Those are the things our folks know or can joke about.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:10PM (1 child)
OK, fair enough. I’ll try and throw less rocks, and instead offer some suggestions for topics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @06:43AM
Keep an eye on the subs queue [soylentnews.org]. They reject a lot of submissions, especially when there are a good number of technical or space subs. The search function works for seeing what has been accepted and rejected [soylentnews.org], although I can't see a way to find only rejected submissions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:38PM
Oh get off yer high course pull out ya calculator and crunch some numbers. This article is primarily about the statistics. Yes of when white people are pushed out in the US. Still numbers. Still math. Come join us to calculate when Australia will collapse under the weight of imported people and dance with the Jak o' the shadows with us as civilisation crumbles