From the London Times......

Whites outnumbered in a generation as immigrants change face of US

Whites will become an ethnic minority in the United States in a generation as surging Hispanic and Asian populations transform the leader of the Western world.

The US Census Bureau projects that whites, now 66 per cent of the population, will make up less than half the total in 2042 — eight years sooner than previously predicted.They will be outnumbered by those who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, Native Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander. It will be the first time that minorities have made up the majority in America since the first US census in 1790, when some 64 per cent of people counted were white.

Driving the demographic shift are the higher birthrates of immigrants and their descendants, as well as an expected increase in the annual number of new immigrants from the current level of 1.3 million to more than two million a year by mid-century. Because of the growing number of non-white babies, the shift will start with children, among whom non-whites will become a majority by 2023. The US workforce will become majority non-white by 2039.

The rapid demographic change has far-reaching consequences for politics in the United States, pushing topics such as immigration and social security reform to the top of the agenda. It might also help to explain why Barack Obama this month will become the first non-white politician to be nominated as a presidential candidate for either main political party.

The Census Bureau noted that by mid-century more than three times as many people are expected to identify themselves as multiracial — a total of 16 million people, making up almost four per cent of the population.

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