The white majority in the U.S. will be outnumbered by Americans of other races by 2042, eight years sooner than previously projected by the Census Bureau.
Minorities, defined by the agency as everyone except non- Hispanic, single-race whites, will make up 54 percent of the U.S. population in 2050, compared with 34 percent of the population today, the Census Bureau said in a statement. The data updates predictions made by the bureau in 2004.
The projections released today, based on census results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality and migration, show the minority population of the U.S. will be 235.7 million out of a total of 439 million in 2050. More than half of all U.S. children are expected to be from minority ethnic groups by 2023.
The non-Hispanic, single-race white population is expected to rise slightly to 203.3 million in 2050 from 199.8 million in 2008, while the Hispanic population is expected to almost triple to 132.8 million from 46.7 million, with its share of the total increasing to 30 percent from 15 percent, the Bureau said.
The black population is expected to increase to 65.7 million, or 15 percent, in 2050 from 41.1 million, or 14 percent, in 2008. The Asian population will increase to 40.6 million from 15.5 million this year, almost doubling its share of the total, to 9.2 percent from 5.1 percent.
….and I care, why?
For those of you who do care, you have some time to fix the numbers. It’s easy. Pick someone of the opposite sex representing the race you like best and, ahem, “make more people.” Not sure you have time to change stats that are counted in the millions, but you’ll be having fun.
Like the eggs, Catherine.
It’s not just happening in the U.S. – Europe, Canada, etc..
White folk are just to lazy to have kids anymore.
Meaningless statistic, considering it’s using a caucasian vs. everyone else scenario. Even worse, We’ve been hearing about this for 20 years. It’s equivalent to a”Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor” headline. Not old, news…ancient news.
Damn those Founding Fathers for wasting money in having a Census every 10 years.
How dare they!
You know the power of Aryan Blood is supreme. Anyone with 1/64th good white blood in them is actually white. We are actually taking over the world.
5 – Aryans are Iranians.
Is this more because of immigration, or is it because Hispanic families always have a half dozen kids?
O.K. so basically whites will still be the majority, as they are talking about all the minority races combined.
Its not like there will be more blacks, hispanics, or asians as a single group than whites. Only when you group them all together.
big deal…
Everything the Census Bureau does other than the constituttionally mandated count of citizens every 10 years falls into the catagory of “useless stuff done with tax dollars” and “meaningless statistics.”
9 – Those stats were anyhting but useless for the Germans. Thx to IBM of course.
First you’re calling rodeo clowns pansies, now you’re calling the Census Bureau doing its job a waste of money. You’re on a roll, girl.
Wake up White People!
Shit, I just spilt some Mustard and Ketchup on my sheet.
As a european I don’t get this white/hispanic thing. What have you got against the spanish immigrants versus the german/portugese/french/italian? If it’s people from Mexico and points south, a lot of them were here pre-Columbus.
#13–Mike, its interesting you should ask that question and then seemingly in innoscense answer it yourself.
You see Mike, the pre-columbian natives in Mexico and points south are not Hispanics which are white people, rather they are of indian/mongol stock==very different. In the main, they don’t come north having deep routes in their home countries. The hispanics have some white blood in them which as I posted above, make them white because white blood is supreme and very powerful.
So, there is no racial issue present, its all cultural. These white hispanics from Mexico want to take the Western USA back and turn it into the same poor, ignorant, catholic place they are comfortable in.
All nations face this problem==immigrants from several countries removed are no problem. Immigrants from right next door want your jobs, your women, and then your land.
Its the way of the world.
These guys don’t exactly have an impeccable record of accuracy…
Especially when you consider the US Census is notoriously bad at interpreting mixed races.
pure white people will gradually disappear.
pure black people will gradually disappear.
ditto for brown, yellow, and every one else.
We are all going to be beige. Sounds pretty good to me.
Now if we could just blend all the cultural extremes too.
#16 – I think the gay population would have a major problem being beige. It would clash with draperies and shit.
See “The Lathe Of Heaven” by Ursula K. LeGuin. We’ll all be gray.
White people have always been the minority. Their REAL fear is that the dark skins one day will become middle and upper class citizens.
So one drop of blood means you’re a minority. Where have I heard that before?
I think I’ll smite three black people, four white people and Helzerman.
# 11 I aim to please
#21 Bring it. I’ve been looking for a rematch. (heh)
#23 Pedro
And the Christian/Catholic/Mormon/etc. churches are not helping either by battling against contraceptives.
#19 – Rick Cain – …the dark skins one day will become middle and upper class citizens.
Really?
#24 – ‘dro
>>And the Christian/Catholic/Mormon/etc. churches
>>are not helping either by battling against
>>contraceptives.
Other than the Catholics, I don’t know of many churches that are “battling against contraceptives”.
#25 – I LMAO!
I don’t think we have to worry though! http://tinyurl.com/69lj87
#27 – Mister Ketchup
LOL! Not really Obama material…
Anyway… Western civilization will never be defeated… We’ve got ninjas!
#26 – Kuzco
wtf are you talking about? Glasses?
You should care because as the savages take over, civilization will fall. Look at Rome. Duh!
well if mexicans were sneaking over the border so much, i guess to balance this out we need more canadians sneaking over the border………