Census: Minorities are the new majority

[MisterCreosote]

Census figures now show that more minority babies are born in the U.S. than white babies. They also estimate that non-Hispanic whites will be a full-fledged minority group by 2042.

For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation’s babies are members of minority groups, according to new census figures that signal the dawn of an era in which whites no longer will be in the majority.

Population estimates show that 50.4 percent of children younger than 1 last year were Hispanic, black, Asian American or in other minority groups.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/census-minority-babies-are-now-majority-in-united-states/2012/05/16/gIQA1WY8UU_story.html

 

[Azrael]

They also estimate that non-Hispanic whites will be a full-fledged minority group by 2042.

As we were in 1620.

 

[RickStain]

My white persecution complex is tingling with anticipation at being statistically justified.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Arnold Schwarzenegger says avoid the hot Latin blood, and especially avoid the ultra-hot combination of black and Latin blood. And he knows whereof he speaks.

 

[JR]

One of my exes had the Latina-black combo. The other ex was just plain white.

To this day, it's still a tossup as to which one was crazier.

Did you ever think you were the crazy one? :)

 

[YankeeFan]

One of my exes had the Latina-black combo. The other ex was just plain white.

To this day, it's still a tossup as to which one was crazier.

Did you ever think you were the crazy one? :)

I've been forced to confront this idea on a couple of occasions as well.

I've rejected it. I'm just attracted to the crazy.

 

[JR]

One of my exes had the Latina-black combo. The other ex was just plain white.

To this day, it's still a tossup as to which one was crazier.

Did you ever think you were the crazy one? :)

I've been forced to confront this idea on a couple of occasions as well.

I've rejected it. I'm just attracted to the crazy.

Your rejection is proof that you're crazy. :)

 

[joe]

But I'm betting the Census figures also would tell you that white men will still control the vast majority of wealth in the country regardless of changing demographics.

 

[black dude with pompano]

These stories come around every so often, and it often makes me wonder why the media choose to identify Hispanics (most of whom self-identify as white for Census purposes) as a separate category when it suits the narrative and not when it doesn't.

The notion that an immigrant from, say, Panama is automatically classified as a "minority" and an immigrant from, say, Romania or Pakistan, is classified as a Caucasian and thus is in the majority, is strange.

It gets even more ridiculous when you have second- and third- and fourth-generation Americans from Spanish-speaking countries who have little or no connection to their Hispanic heritage other than, perhaps, a last name, and yet they are grouped differently for demographic purposes that have a questionable premise to begin with.

This is a tangent, but I found it humorous that George Zimmerman (of the Trayvon Martin case) was constantly identified in the media as "white" when in any other context, he would be identified as Hispanic.

 

[Drip]

The takeover will be complete in 42.

 

[dpfunk78]

 

[Guy_Incognito]

I know a lot of you here think he's funny, maybe he is. I've never heard his act. But over here he's being willfully obtuse for a laugh, right? He can't be dumb enough to not get this.

 

[User 11148]

This is a tangent, but I found it humorous that George Zimmerman (of the Trayvon Martin case) was constantly identified in the media as "white" when in any other context, he would be identified as Hispanic.

I'm not going to link, because many/most sites with this are damn distasteful, but do a Google image search on "George Zimmerman" and "Elizabeth Warren" ... there's a photoshopped pic with him labeled "Cracker" and her labeled "Minority" ... it's pretty funny.

 

[LongTimeListener]

The labels are going to be almost indistinguishable by the time "minority" eclipses majority for good ... I mean, what happens when a half-Asian/half-white boy marries a quarter-Latin/quarter-black/half-white girl? What box do you check for their kids?

 

[User 11148]

The labels are going to be almost indistinguishable by the time "minority" eclipses majority for good ... I mean, what happens when a half-Asian/half-white boy marries a quarter-Latin/quarter-black/half-white girl? What box do you check for their kids?

I never was good with fractions ...

 

[Stitch]

I know a lot of you here think he's funny, maybe he is. I've never heard his act. But over here he's being willfully obtuse for a laugh, right? He can't be dumb enough to not get this.

Comedians being obtuse? You're kidding?

 

[ColdCat]

It gets even more ridiculous when you have second- and third- and fourth-generation Americans from Spanish-speaking countries who have little or no connection to their Hispanic heritage other than, perhaps, a last name, and yet they are grouped differently for demographic purposes that have a questionable premise to begin with.

I worked with someone who was in this situation once. She was considered Hispanic, but her family was from Texas, as in dating back to well before Texan independence from Mexico. Her family never crossed the border, it crossed them.

 

[User 11148]

It gets even more ridiculous when you have second- and third- and fourth-generation Americans from Spanish-speaking countries who have little or no connection to their Hispanic heritage other than, perhaps, a last name, and yet they are grouped differently for demographic purposes that have a questionable premise to begin with.

I worked with someone who was in this situation once. She was considered Hispanic, but her family was from Texas, as in dating back to well before Texan independence from Mexico. Her family never crossed the border, it crossed them.

Texas history's kinda cool this way. The "Old Three Hundred" (S.A. Austin's fellow settlers) had to forswear their U.S. citizenship and become citizens of Spain/Mexico (I'm murky on the details right now) as part of their original land grants.

 

[LongTimeListener]

It gets even more ridiculous when you have second- and third- and fourth-generation Americans from Spanish-speaking countries who have little or no connection to their Hispanic heritage other than, perhaps, a last name, and yet they are grouped differently for demographic purposes that have a questionable premise to begin with.

I worked with someone who was in this situation once. She was considered Hispanic, but her family was from Texas, as in dating back to well before Texan independence from Mexico. Her family never crossed the border, it crossed them.

Texas history's kinda cool this way. The "Old Three Hundred" (S.A. Austin's fellow settlers) had to forswear their U.S. citizenship and become citizens of Spain/Mexico (I'm murky on the details right now) as part of their original land grants.

Mexico for land grants, Switzerland for tax breaks ... same as it ever was. :)

 

[Drip]

The labels are going to be almost indistinguishable by the time "minority" eclipses majority for good ... I mean, what happens when a half-Asian/half-white boy marries a quarter-Latin/quarter-black/half-white girl? What box do you check for their kids?

Persons of two or more races.