The Year White People Will Become A Minority In America Has Been Declared
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2045. This is the year, the U.S. Census Bureau now projects, that whites will be in the minority.
According to information released Wednesday, the non-Hispanic, native-born white population "will become less than 50% before 2040," Brookings Institution demographer William Frey told Al Jazeera America. "Overall, there is white decline and minority gain for most of the projection period. [...] The majority-minority tipping point date is 2044," meaning that by 2045 the white population will become the racial minority.
Two reasons these stats are not surprising: First, the U.S. birthrate has slowed significantly, with 3.5 million fewer people expected to be living in America by 2060 than originally projected. Meanwhile, immigration rates have risen. "From 2015 to 2060, the country will lose 23 million U.S.-born whites and gain 118 million racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants," Frey said.
Second, as National Geographic detailed earlier this year, America is becoming more and more of a melting ? . While the Census Bureau is still figuring out how to accurately track race demographics in America, between 2000 and 2010 there was a 32% increase of people who check more than one race in the census survey.
The implications of this shift in demographics go far beyond skin tone, arguably contributing to the increased racial tensions across America, especially post-Ferguson. A 2014 study by Northwestern University psychologists showed that fear of becoming the minority actually made white people more socially conservative. As Mic has written previously, this fear and loathing — "fear at the prospect of having to actually consider one's race as not inhabiting the dominant position; loathing for having to realize that they live in a multiracial world, and that they have effectively become 'othered'" — helps support mistrust and perpetuate societal racial inequality.
The Census Bureau's data is proof that we are becoming, in terms of demographics, more united and equal. What Americans do with that data remains to be seen.
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Minority skinned excellence
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Good. Heterogeneity sucks.
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"white" people will never be a minority since the biggest minority is "white hispanics" (75% of whom identify as white), then with the black population stagnating and Arabs/North Africans being considered "white", you won't see a US with a white minority ever. WASPs are a minority, and soon southern/eastern euro/irish/catholic whites will be a minority but the white racial group will never be a minority here unless there are significant waves of African/Asian immigrants in the next 100 years
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hope im still alive in 2040
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Mexicans takin over
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"white" people will never be a minority since the biggest minority is "white hispanics"
lol, probably true, the image of a 'white' person will just become a little more 'suntanned' than today.
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#TheBrowning
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I'll have my firearms ready for that day
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Darth Sidious wrote: »
100 yrs ago, ? Italians and yids Jews weren't considered white, now look. most Hispanics in the US identify as white -
Just had to get the brightest light source they could for those photos, huh? Paper bag test all over those pictures.
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...DONT MATTER WHO HAS THE MOST PEOPLE... IT ONLY MATTERS WHO HAS THE MOST MONEY.. SO WHITES WILL STILL RULE ?
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Reproduce black people and build families. Multiculturalism is not in your benefit,
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"White Privilege" will only mutate into "Light Privilege" as time goes on.
And as long as they ( Whites / Lights ) continue to steal and hoard all the money, it won't matter tha they're the minority.. -
"Native born population"?
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? means absolutely nothing. All that matters is who controls to the wealth and who controls the system to acheive wealth has the power. When whites don't have that then come and talk to me
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Real ? are coming back in 2015
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The US will probably become like Brazil...that is not good.
In Brazil, Race Is A Matter Of Life And Violent Death
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/11/09/362356878/in-brazil-race-is-a-matter-of-life-and-violent-death
Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world. In 2012, 56,337 people were murdered. Compare that to the U.S., where fewer than 15,000 people died violently the same year in a country with 60 percent more people.
But those statistics hide a color-coded truth: Brazil actually has gotten a lot safer for white people. In the past decade, homicides among whites have decreased 24 percent. But among the black population they have increased 40 percent.
"Those who are white tend to be able to afford themselves and avail themselves of greater security, and we are seeing reductions in homicides," says Robert Muggah from the IGARAPE Institute, a global security think tank based in Rio de Janeiro. "Those who are black and who are unable to — as our societies become more and more unequal — are less able to secure those public goods, and as a result are seeing homicide rates going up."
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Lol@ latinos identifying themselves as white.
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Darth Sidious wrote: »The US will probably become like Brazil...that is not good.
In Brazil, Race Is A Matter Of Life And Violent Death
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/11/09/362356878/in-brazil-race-is-a-matter-of-life-and-violent-death
Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world. In 2012, 56,337 people were murdered. Compare that to the U.S., where fewer than 15,000 people died violently the same year in a country with 60 percent more people.
But those statistics hide a color-coded truth: Brazil actually has gotten a lot safer for white people. In the past decade, homicides among whites have decreased 24 percent. But among the black population they have increased 40 percent.
"Those who are white tend to be able to afford themselves and avail themselves of greater security, and we are seeing reductions in homicides," says Robert Muggah from the IGARAPE Institute, a global security think tank based in Rio de Janeiro. "Those who are black and who are unable to — as our societies become more and more unequal — are less able to secure those public goods, and as a result are seeing homicide rates going up."
I don't think that's a matter of racial diversity. It's more related to covert racism and its affect on socio-economics.
On topic, I doubt the projection will come true. It doesn't take into account the strange disease that seems to only affect people from Mexico and Central America that will inevitably pop up in a decade or so.
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Do what I say black folk, keep building and educating and making children with the sciences they need to ? control and power with an African mindset not a euro mindset.
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? means absolutely nothing. All that matters is who controls to the wealth and who controls the system to acheive wealth has the power. When whites don't have that then come and talk to me
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since "white" is a social construction, they will simply allow more folks to claim it.
there will be millions of brown skinned ppl claiming whiteness. It has happened before. -
ThirdEyeFive wrote: »since "white" is a social construction, they will simply allow more folks to claim it.
there will be millions of brown skinned ppl claiming whiteness. It has happened before.
ie Asians -
As long as money still have white faces on it much wont change.
