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"Whites" are the New Minority in America by 2044

New population projections by the US Census Bureau show that "WHITES"  will  become a MINORITY by 2044.

The US will be home to a youthful, growing minority  population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining  white population.

The new projections from the Census Bureau show two trends for American’s  population: a long-term decline for the nation’s white population – which will  make up 49.7 percent of the population by 2044 – and a growth of minorities such  as Asians, Latinos, and multiracial persons.

In fact, the Latino, Asian, and multiracial populations are all expected to  double in size over the next 40 years. Specifically, Latinos are projected to  make up 25.1 percent of the US population in 2044, doubling that of  African-Americans.

“The pace of U.S. population growth is slowing, and the population  continues to become more diverse,” Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at  the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy, told Al  Jazeera America. “This will produce a rich tapestry of demographic change in  the U.S. over the next several decades.”

The other emerging trend is the  aging of the white population, which by 2060 will make up just 44 percent of the  population. Of that, 55 percent will be 65 years and older. And by 2027, more  than half of America’s twenty-somethings will be racial minorities. During the  2028 presidential election, 40 percent of all eligible voters will be racial  minorities.

The population changes are being brought about by higher birth rates among minority populations, mixed households, and more interracial marriages. Against those trends are the declining growth rates and rapid aging of the white population – the result of both lower birth rates among younger white Americans, and the advancing age of the Baby Boom generation.

“Thirty percent all grandparents in America have a grandchild of a  different race or ethnicity, and the diversity in this country is growing in so  many ways, we are just starting to get a grasp on those changes,” Guy  Garcia, president of New Mainstream Initiatives for Ethnifacts, told Latin Post.

“Gay parents, when they adopt, there is a high rate of multicultural  adoptions. We have all these new variation and permutations of the American  family. It’s going to continue to happen, and the highest growth is coming from  people of color, but they are mixing and merging and having children with people  of every race, and it is going to continue to be that way.”

Garcia said that technology and social media, with its instantaneous speed  and global reach, is enabling new ways of expression for inter-ethnic  communities and communities that never existed before.

“That hyper-connected future includes Ambiculturals – people of colors  who are retaining the values and flavors of their cultural origins as well as  their American sensibilities, and fluidly exploring and advancing opportunities  of both,” Garcia said.

Garcia said that in the 2010 US Census, nine million people checked multiple  identification boxes. They might have checked white, Hispanic or other, and even  the Census chief, Robert Groves, said they weren’t capturing how people see  themselves.

Garcia said self-identification is starting to shift, with some people saying  they are 100 percent Latino, Asian, or African-American, as well as 100 percent  American.

Paul Taylor in his book 'The Next America' said the changes will produce  generational competition in future decades over resources and government  priorities. And according to the US Census data, later in the 21st century there  will be no majority demographic group in the United States.

http://rt.com/usa/214651-whites-minority-population-america/