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Phunkie wrote on 2011-07-11 20:32
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The future is now: Nonwhite babies now outnumber white babies in the U.S., according to the latest census data.
Black, Hispanic, Asian and multiracial babies accounted for more than half of all children under age 2 in the U.S., the Associated Press reports via msn.com. Whites, by contrast, make up the bulk of older Americans, accounting for 80 percent of Americans age 65 and older, and 73 percent of people 45 to 64.
In another major demographic shift, the percentage of African-American households headed by unmarried women is greater than that of those headed by married heterosexual couples, a review of the census data also found.
The two-percentage-point difference (30 percent female-headed vs. 28 percent married couples) marked the first time that households headed by unmarried women outnumbered those of married couples among any racial or ethnic group since at least 1950, demographer William H. Frey of the Brookings Institution told the AP.
Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.
"We're moving toward an acknowledgment that we're living in a different world than the 1950s, where married or two-parent heterosexual couples are now no longer the norm for a lot of kids, especially kids of color," said Laura Speer, coordinator of the Kids Count project for the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Source: the Associated Press via msn.com.
As the nation's adults get older and whiter while its youngest citizens get blacker and browner, it will be interesting to see how the dynamic plays out in the continuing debates over Medicare and public education.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/black-and-brown-babies-outnumber-whites-us
We have officially taken over America. :lol:
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Lan wrote on 2011-07-11 20:33
First baby is so cute :3
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Kayate wrote on 2011-07-11 20:34
Today America Tomorrow the world
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TA wrote on 2011-07-11 20:43
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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whocares8128 wrote on 2011-07-11 20:47
I like how the first two babies seem to be looking in the same direction, while the baby on the far right is staring almost straight up at something else.
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Tarvos wrote on 2011-07-11 20:47
If you're counting every other race against one other, then yeah, white is the minority. (for babies)
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-07-11 20:53
Quote from Tarvos;508257:
If you're counting every other race against one other, then yeah, white is the minority. (for babies)
Yup, yup.
I wonder what this country will look like in 50 years, when all the white older folks have passed away and all the young kids of now replace them and then have their own kids.
Hopefully that'll mean less prejudice towards different groups of people.
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TA wrote on 2011-07-11 20:55
Quote from Phigga;508262:
Hopefully that'll mean less prejudice towards different groups of people.
Tables will just turn and it'll be prejudice against whites.
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-07-11 20:55
Quote from TA;508264:
Tables will just turn and it'll be prejudice against whites.
I hope not.
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Mrlucky77 wrote on 2011-07-11 21:00
It's funny because it's expected.
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Spike wrote on 2011-07-11 21:38
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I hope not.
See the comments to the article you posted
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Lan wrote on 2011-07-11 21:43
Quote from Spike;508321:
See the comments to the article you posted
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...that's just, bad.
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Adelynn wrote on 2011-07-11 21:50
Quote from Spike;508321:
See the comments to the article you posted
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People can be scary.
Anywho, I hope this makes the whole racism thing less prominent.
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Lan wrote on 2011-07-11 21:51
Quote from Adelynn;508333:
People can be scary.
Anywho, I hope this makes the whole racism thing less prominent.
It's not just white people who are racist.
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Adelynn wrote on 2011-07-11 21:59
Quote from Lan;508335:
It's not just white people who are racist.
I didn't say that.