WHITE AMERICANS’ MAJORITY TO END BY MID-CENTURY

The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the United States.

Census Bureau projections released Wednesday update last year’s prediction that white children would become a minority in 2023 and the overall white population would follow in 2042. The earlier estimate did not take into account a drop in the number of people moving into the United States because of the economic crisis and the immigration policies imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

* The United States has 308 million people today; two-thirds are non-Hispanic whites.
* The total population should climb to 399 million by 2050, under the new projections, with whites making up 49.9 percent of the population.
* Blacks will make up 12.2 percent, virtually unchanged from today.
* Hispanics, currently 15 percent of the population, will rise to 28 percent in 2050.
* Asians are expected to increase from 4.4 percent of the population to 6 percent.

The projections are based on rates for births and deaths and a scenario in which immigration continues its more recent, slower pace of adding nearly 1 million new foreigners each year:

* The point when minority children become the majority is expected to have a similar delay of roughly eight years, moving from 2023 to 2031.
* The population 85 and older is projected to more than triple by 2050, to 18.6 million.

The actual shift in demographics will be influenced by a host of factors that can’t be accurately forecast — the pace of the economic recovery, cultural changes, natural or manmade disasters, as well as an overhaul of immigration law, which may be debated in Congress as early as next year.

As a result, the Census Bureau said the projections should be used mostly as a guide.

Source: Hope Yen, “White Americans’ majority to end by mid-century,” Associated Press, December 16, 2009.

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LOL, I know! Are you serious about the book? I did not know that. Elegance? Where? Although, truth be told, she was probably one of the “normal” ones, for whatever that’s worth.

Is her book fiction/comedy/tragedy/insanity? I wonder how many times she mentions the SOL story (is it even true) in her tome?

The Countess… Isn’t he divorcing her and running off with an Ethiopian chick?

“Class with the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair” is her new book. Perhaps her hubby grew tired of all that class.

Maybe it’s time we wrap up the Statue of Liberty and fed ex it to that Housewife of NY “Countess” so her ex-hubby can return it to it’s rightful owner, France.

I’ve always been amazed by that, too, Kit. The Spaniard offspring was already well-entrenched into both Florida and Texas (and Calif., for that matter) by the time the Anglos got there. Guess they never heard of St. Augustine….

Believe it or not, I have Native American in me from my Mom’s Mom. And my brother in law is part Cherokee. It is hardly my fault that I look like my great grandmother on my Mom’s Dad’s side.
One of the strange things about this current obsession with Spanish ancestry, especially in the Western states, (Florida also) is the fact that almost all of the western states were originally Spanish possessions. It makes me wonder why they think they can change history by denying people on the basis of BROWN or BLACK skin color.
I have this really neat book of photographs called “Children Of The West, Family Life On The Frontier” by Cathy Luchetti It has photographs of Native, Spanish, Chinese, & Black families, as well as all the shades of white.

but were they…BROWN???

Somebody once said something about the decline of a nation being directly coincident with the suspicion of strangers. I have found that a wise observation. As a nation of migrants (we all came from somewhere else, even the Native Americans) we really cannot cast a finger at another for we are all different and this has in the past been our greatest source of strength.

Good point.