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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1257110/America-nears-tipping-point-babies-born-minority-parents-outnumber-whites-time.html
America is reaching a ‘tipping point’ when the babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for the first time.
More white women than ever before are postponing having children until they are older, while minority mothers are still having babies at younger ages, according to a US study published yesterday.
Experts claim the immigration boom has accelerated the historic trend that is likely to leave whites in the minority in America by the middle of the century.
Multicultural: Families watch babies in a hospital nursery in Houston, Texas. There will soon be more babies born to minority parents than to white families
Minorities made up 48 per cent of US children born in 2008, according to the latest census estimates, compared to 37 per cent in 19990.
But the new study suggests the number of minority babies born this year is almost certainly going to number more than half of all new births.
‘For America’s children, the future is now,’ said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire who researched many of the racial trends in the report.
‘Census projections suggest America may become a minority-majority country by the middle of the century,’ he added.
He explained that there are now more Hispanic women of prime childbearing age in the US, who tend to have more children than women of other races.
U.S. BIRTH STATISTICS 2008Percentage of babies born in American broken down by race
52% WHITE
25% HISPANIC
15% BLACK
4% ASIAN
4% MULTIRACIAL
More white women are waiting until they are older to have babies, although it is not yet clear how much effect that will have on the current trend of increasing minority newborns.
The number of white women of prime childbearing age is on the decline, dropping 19 per cent from 1990.
Broken down by race, about 52 per cent of babies born in 2008 were white.
That's compared to about 25 per cent Hispanic, 15 per cent black and 4 per cent Asian. Another 4 per cent were identified by their parents as multiracial.
The numbers highlight the nation's growing racial and age divide, seen in pockets of communities across the US, which could heighten tensions in current policy debates from immigration reform and education to health care and Social Security.
There are also strong implications for the 2010 population count, which begins in earnest next week, when more than 120 million US households receive their census forms in the post.
The Census Bureau is running public service announcements this week to improve its tally of young children, particularly minorities, who are most often missed in the once-a-decade head count.
Whites currently make up two-thirds of the total US population, and recent census estimates suggest the total number of minorities may not overtake the number of whites until 2050.
Right now, roughly one in ten of the nation's 3,142 counties already have minority populations greater than 50 per cent.
But one in four communities have more minority children than white children or are nearing that point, according to the study, which Mr Johnson co-published.
That is because Hispanic women on average have three children, while other women on average have two. The numbers are 2.99 children for Hispanics, 1.87 for whites, 2.13 for blacks and 2.04 for Asians in the US.
The 2008 census estimates used local records of births and deaths, tax records of people moving within the US, and census statistics on immigrants.
Really can't believe the shit that passes for a news article in this rag.
Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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Christ...
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_some_bullshit
This time is not so much the story as the headline chosen for it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258123/Jake-hero-Judge-praises-ROTTWEILER-stopped-illegal-immigrant-raping-woman-park.html#ixzz0iJkGJUNI
Next time a woman is molested by an Englishman (which happens a lot more regularly) I'm sure the Mail will also feel the need to mention this in the headline... :rolleyes:
When was the last time we saw "white man steals from government" or "english native rapes and murders a young woman"?
First, Daily Mail have invented the so-called miracle pill that can cure all of the world's cancers. Now they have invented the time machine. On next week's front page, "This pill can make you teleport!"
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Let there be more diversity of people in the world, I say.
In any case, I shouldn't think that a nation as right-wing as the USA would worry about a newspaper "sticking their right-wing arm" into their affairs.
I love this though.
I know how you feel. However I've developed a tactic, everytime my American wife's parents fall about laughing at some idiotic, ridiculous idea dreamed up by the British Government I just tell them that not all Brits are that stupid and agree with them that the latest piece of lunancy is... well lunacy
I'm perfectly capable of defending my arguments. I tend to find it's people who aren't who moan about their ideas being criticised, or claim hurt feelings at the first sign or disagreement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
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