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| Whites 'to be US minority by 2050' |
| 2008-02-11 |
| NON-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 per cent of US population growth in coming years, a new study said today. The US population would grow to 438 million in 2050 from 296 million in 2005 if current population trends continued, the Pew Research Centre study found. Non-Hispanic whites would account for 47 per cent of the total in 2050, it concluded. By that time, one in every five Americans would be a foreign-born immigrant, compared to one in eight in 2005. "Of the 117 million people added to the population in this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their US-born children or grandchildren," the study said. Researchers predicted that while the white population, with its lower fertility rate, aged, the Latino population, the nation's largest minority, would triple in size. Latinos would be responsible for 60 per cent of the population growth until 2050. They would account for 29 per cent of the population, or 128 million in 2050, up from 14 per cent now, the study said. "The number of whites will increase, but only by four per cent," said D'Vera Cohn, one of the report's authors. The Asian population would almost double in percentage terms, from five to nine per cent, while blacks would remain about 13 per cent of the total, the report said. At the same time, the elderly population would more than double as the baby boom generation retired. The number of children and working-age people would grow more slowly. Almost half of the new immigrants arriving the United States would be from Latin American countries, said the other author of the study, Jeffrey Passel from the Pew Hispanic Centre. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 How many mixed marriages before they count as white? And how many generations before Hispanic means white the same as Italian? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-02-11 22:48 |
| #5 at least I'll dance better |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-11 21:54 |
| #4 THE MAN! be keepin me down!! I can't wait to say that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-11 21:51 |
| #3 "If trends continue." Sorta like the guy who hits two home runs on opening day is "on track to hit 300 homers this year..." Heh... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-02-11 21:49 |
| #2 300M folks is more than enough...which is why I'm for sealing the border, slowing down legal immigration to a trickle and setting high standards for the few we do let in each year...starts w/tax reform, privatizing social security accounts, and a govt w/some balls. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-02-11 21:34 |
| #1 With Hispanics wanting to be 'like white' in their voting patterns; they hope to sooth the American majority for now, until their numbers put whites closer to the back of the bus with blacks by 2050! The price they will pay for letting them in 'Carte Blanche' and ignoring the illegals in the mean time! |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-11 20:57 |