Thread: Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants

So, are they still minorities?

JUNE 23, 2016 5:15 PM
Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants


50.2 percent of babies born last year were minorities
The past several years have seen growth in birth rates among minorities
The U.S. will become a country with no racial majority in the next several decades

BY TERESA WELSH

White babies are now outnumbered by minority babies, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau.
In 2015, racial and ethnic minorities made up 50.2 percent of babies under a year old. That year, there were 1,995,102 minority babies born, just slightly more than the 1,982,936 white babies born.

The 2015 data was released Thursday, as was updated data for previous years. These new figures show that in 2013, minority babies also outnumbered non-Hispanic white babies by about 1,000 births. In 2014, white babies were outnumbered by about 16,000.

Original data from 2011 showed that white babies were in the minority, but those figures were revised in 2013 to show that the white infants were still the majority. But the new information released Thursday shows that the original figures were in fact correct, and minority births outpaced white ones.

While whites are expected to become the minority in the U.S. population in the coming decades — estimates run from 2044 to 2055 — it has been difficult to predict exactly when the shift will come. Fertility rates are impacted by a number of factors, including the health of the economy, and immigration flows can also be unpredictable.

Census bureau data, like the birthrate figures released Thursday, indicate that the shift from a majority white nation to one with no majority racial or ethnic group is starting with the youngest age groups in the country. In 2015, 50.3 percent of children younger than 5 were minorities.

Tracking such figures can also be a challenge, because different data sources use different metrics to determine a child’s race. The National Center for Health Statistics doesn’t represent mixed-race mothers as such in its data, while Census Bureau data is reported to reflect children of multiple races.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nati...e85591172.html

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article85591172.html#storylink=cpy

This is all because of illegal alien and immigrant births. It's really hard to understand a government that wants and pushes this.

They are here to replace Americans, that is the plan. Surprised O didn't put some sort of hispanic on the money he ordered be changed - audacious. His head is so big, it's like a hot air balloon.

Because white people can't afford to pay for THEIR own families. They are having smaller families. Too busy working to make it themselves...and being forced to pay for illegals and what they TAKE from our Country!

We do not want to have 8 kids and live in the dirt off the backs of others!

"They all gotta go" -- artist.

In the global scheme of things, whites are only about 30% of the total population.

Someone is confusing skin color with arbitrary statistical classification. If a group composes 50.2% of the total then it is a majority--not a minority. This implies that white babies are a minority at 49.8%.

pkskyali wrote:

I don't actually know, but I think I can guess reliably that there is no public assistance anywhere in any of the South or Central American countries.

Some of these countries do actually provide limited public assistance with a goal of reducing poverty.

Originally Posted by MW

Some of these countries do actually provide limited public assistance with a goal of reducing poverty.

Which ones and what do they get?

They receive foreign aid from the US for that purpose yet they send us their poverty and pocket the money it seems.