Posted on 05/10/2006 7:57:24 AM PDT by kellynla
One in every three U.S. residents is now classified as belonging to a racial or ethnic minority, largely because of the explosive growth of the nation's Hispanic population, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
Hispanics accounted for nearly half of the nation's total population increase during the year ending July 1, 2005, the report said.
Growing faster than any other segment of the population, Hispanics make up the largest minority with 42.7 million members. The second largest minority group is composed of blacks, with 39.7 million, followed by Asians, with 14.4 million. The minority population also includes 4.5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives and 990,000 Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
In all, the nation's minority population totaled 98 million, or one-third of the total 296.4 million residents. The non-Hispanic white population that listed no other race totaled 198.4 million.
An earlier Census Bureau projection showed that the so-called "minority" population and the current "majority" of non-Hispanic whites each would make up about half of the total population by the year 2050, said Robert Bernstein, a bureau spokesman.
This report said that Hispanics made up 14.4 percent of the total population. Blacks make up 13.4 percent, Asians 4.8 percent and non-Hispanic whites 66.9 percent.
"These middecade numbers provide further evidence of the increasing diversity of our nation's population," said Charles Louis Kincannon, director of the Census Bureau.
The nation's population grew by 2.8 million between July 1, 2004, and July 1, 2005, with Hispanics making up nearly half -- 1.3 million people -- of this increase.
There are two components of population growth -- immigration and natural increase of births over deaths, Mr. Bernstein said.
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Soon to be a lot more seeing as how Kennedy-McCain allows the illegals currently here to bring their family members over from Mexico. And the bill provides that this is explicitly NOT subject to the caps in the numbers of family members which apply to legal permanent residents.
In the very near future racial tensions will explode between blacks and hispanics.
Hispanic is not a race. Period.
Illegal immigration is one factor here, but there is another factor. Birthrate. Hispanics still breed over the 2.1 child per parent minimum to keep the population stable, "Anglos" dont. This is a generalization of course, but the facts bear it out.
America's founding demographic is contracepting, aborting and buggering itself out of existence - it's useless to blame other people for not being equally stupid.
I didn't realize we were in a baby-making race. Choosing to only have as many children as one can afford rather than having as many as the government will pay for is NOT a bad thing.
If you must blame someone, blame the government for subsidising it.
You have hit the "problem" nail on the head! In the future the USofA will be Hispanic. Borders, fences, walls, etc., will not matter. My hope is that the "American Dream" will live on! The Mexican California population gives the impression that they will continue our "Dream".
"- well that's certainly not the fault of African-Americans or Mexicans."
I would argue that having up to 70% of their children out of wedlock and having more children than they can afford to support IS their fault. I certainly don't encourage others to emulate that behavior.
We're not in any kind of a race at all, as far as I'm concerned.
Choosing to only have as many children as one can afford rather than having as many as the government will pay for is NOT a bad thing.
"Afford" is a very fluid term.
The level of minority fertility and the level of minority illegitimacy has nothing to do with the failure of American whites to replace themselves.
Easily 90% of white American men and women could have 3 children or more in wedlock if they so desired. But they don't.
"Easily 90% of white American men and women could have 3 children or more in wedlock if they so desired."
I don't believe that for a second. Sure they could but many would be broke or struggling to pay for it, comprimising the quality of life for the whole family. That is why whites tend to have fewer children. Children are expensive and the parents are expected to pay for them. As it should be.
"The level of minority fertility and the level of minority illegitimacy has nothing to do with the failure of American whites to replace themselves."
BS, it has EVERYTHING to do with it. American whites ARE replacing themselves but not in the ratios that minorities are. Whites simply can't be financially and socially responsible and keep up with minorities at having babies.
American whites in the 1930s and 1940s had significantly more children than they do now, yet they were on average paupers by today's income standards.
The avergae American white can easily afford 3 children without comprising their quality of life in any meaningful way.
They prefer swanker living quarters, high-end vehicles, and expensive vacations, clothing and dining to having a second or third child.
It's a decision they make based on their appetites, not one they are forced into by any kind of external necessity.
American whites ARE replacing themselves but not in the ratios that minorities are.
Hard to substantiate. The US population grows organically (excluding immigration) at .91% a year. That figure implies that white Americans are now below replacement.
Whites simply can't be financially and socially responsible and keep up with minorities at having babies.
Of course they can. I see it all the time in Lakewood, NJ. A small businessman (owner of a shop, restaurant, etc.) with a stay-at-home wife and 8-12 kids. Orthodox Jewish families.
The family may have two or three kids sharing a bedroom, may drive a used van instead of a BMW, may never get to Aruba in the winter or own a house on the shore, but they are all well-dressed, warmly housed and well-fed.
Absolutely true. Mestizo is a race, but for some reason people can't bring themselves to use that word.
What I want to know is what happens when working, responsible, contributors to the economy are outnumbered by welfare, AFDC cases. Does our economy implode?
All that will happen is what made the USA so unique and great will be no more. We will be no different than anywhere else in the world. Two classes, Rich (Elites) and the Poor and neither the two will meet..........
A high rate of out of wedlock births doesn't mean a high birth rate. Stereotypes of the black welfare mama with 12 out of wedlock kids aside, the black birth rate is barely at replacement level, and has fallen over the last decade. You shouldn't assume that minorities are outbreeding whites because they are having unfettered sex and litters of babies- many,particularly Latino families, are simply larger than their Anglo counterparts.
"You shouldn't assume that minorities are outbreeding whites because they are having unfettered sex and litters of babies- many,particularly Latino families, are simply larger than their Anglo counterparts."
So you don't tie a 70% out-of-wedlock birthrate to "unfettered sex"? When the government pays for the babies people tend to have more babies. Just look on any military base. Just look at any housing project.
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