Posted on 01/30/2019 12:46:41 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Presidential candidates running for the White House in 2020 will face the most diverse electorate in American history when one in every three people eligible to vote will be nonwhite.
A new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows 66.7 percent of eligible U.S. voters will be white in 2020. For the first time, Hispanic voters will make up the largest minority within the electorate, surpassing black voters.
As recently as the 2000 election, more than three-quarters of the electorate was white. In the nearly two decades since, the number of both Hispanic citizens and Asian-American citizens has nearly doubled, while the African-American population has grown by about 10 percent.
“This is largely driven by growth in Hispanics and Asians,” said Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew. “It’s driven partly by natural growth, by fertility. And among those who are eligible to vote, there are naturalized citizens. And Hispanics are an important part of our immigration stream.”
The country’s rapidly changing demographics are hastened by the arrival of Generation Z, those born after 1996, who are just beginning to age into the electorate. Generation Z is both the most ethnically diverse and best-educated age cohort in American history — only 55 percent of that generation is white, compared with 74 percent of the baby-boom generation. Members of Generation Z will make up about one in 10 voters eligible to cast a ballot by 2020.
The diversity of the youngest generation means the slow pace of demographic change is going to speed up as more members of Generation Z turn 18 and begin participating in the political process.
“We’re expecting demographic shifts to accelerate in the next ten years. They’re not going to flatten. They’re going to take off,” said Matt Barreto, a political scientist at UCLA and the founder of the Democratic polling firm Latino Decisions.
By contrast, the baby-boom generation is beginning to lose political clout. Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, will make up 28 percent of the electorate, still the largest generation by population, but only narrowly edging out millennials.
Those born after 1964 — members of Generation X, millennials and Generation Z — will account for a whopping 62 percent of the electorate.
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Only if you count “hispanics” (not an ethnic group) as non White even though many of them are.......wait for it....White.
The media/leftist FETISH in this country with identity politics is a complete joke.
A couple examples.....A friend’s cousin married a blonde haired blue eyed cheerleader for my alma mater’s university. Her dad is from and she was raised in Indiana. Her mom is ethnically European by way of Venezuela. Because of that she counts as “hispanic”. Nevermind that she is even closer to Hitler’s aryan ideal than I am. Their kids will of course register as “hispanic”. They get all sorts of benefits for doing so and get discriminated against if they check the box for White....even though they will be.
My niece married a guy from Chile. His ancestors were Spanish and Portuguese. He’s slightly more olive than our side of the family but anybody would take one look at him on the street and tell you he’s White. But he’s of course “hispanic” and they’d be complete fools to not have their kids check the box for “hispanic” so I’m sure they will.
“hispanic” is no more an ethnic group than “American” is an ethnic group.
Just like the democrats want, people who do not support the foundational aspects of this country. They hate white people and want to eradicate us from the earth.
JoMa
Maybe you haven’t heard but white ethno states are not allowed
As will 100% of the ineligible Voters who Vote anyway.
So who got more than 50% of the Hispanic vote in Florida? Was it that evil Republican, Ron DeSantis? I believe it was....
“A friend’s cousin married a blonde haired blue eyed cheerleader...”
In other words, Cameron Diaz.
“100% of non-eligible voters will be non-white.”
That statistic is not possible.
You don’t get it.
Americans are clowns when it comes to identity politics.
I’m “white hispanic” because of my mom’s Spanish-Basque ancestry.
My wife is Cuban and has blond hair and green eyes.
Leftist racists truly believe a Mezo-Indian is “Hispanic “.
They are liars and fools.
Nobody ever considers the fact that Germanic Goths invaded and populated a big part of Spain and Portugal.
Most hispanics are white! Stop the divide and conquer politics!
Yep - saw lots of Blacks with Trump signs/bumper stickers here in S. MS...get rid of the illegals and other election-stealing crap and we will be fine.
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