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Oxymoron.The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050
If more than half are "minorities", shouldn't they be called "majorities"?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/11/cen....ap/index.html
Census: Texas newest state to have non-white majority
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Latinos moving to the state.
According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state.
Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations -- with Latinos the largest group in every state but Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans.
Five other states -- Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona -- aren't far behind, with about 40 percent minorities.
Public policy analysts said these states and the country as a whole need to bring minority education and professional achievement to the levels of whites. Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less compe ive.
William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Ins ution in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities' education and salary levels in line with Anglos.
"Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in," Frey said. "While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it."
Complications from the cultural shift aren't likely to be exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey said.
Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent. Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said.
"That's the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition," Frey said.
Though some areas may never see this shift, the country as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a decade ago.
The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
"If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Latino populations grew faster than Anglo populations," Murdock said. "It's a very pervasive pattern."
Oxymoron.The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050
If more than half are "minorities", shouldn't they be called "majorities"?
I love this Country.
Damn already posted in the political thread. But mine isn't political...haha.
well each individual minority is still less in #'s then plain white folk. But grouped all together and put and "s" on the end, they're more in #.Oxymoron.
If more than half are "minorities", shouldn't they be called "majorities"?
so yeah, it's still minorities as in a group of minorities...... but if 1 of that group was more populous then white folks then they'd be the majority...and white people could join with the other minorities.
Technically, we're all minorities now, since none of us are the majority.
It's not to late to turn this around..............
'come on white folks, get to ing !'
Uds. deben practicar su español. Lo necesitarán. Este gringo está listo.
Kevin, you are the only one that actually makes me laugh when I read this stuff. What are you doing this summer?
Este gringo está ambivalente.
It's not to late to turn this around..............
'come on white folks, get to ing !'
Soy listo también... yo hago ya el traductor del babelfish marcar.
Yeah I know. It was a joke.well each individual minority is still less in #'s then plain white folk. But grouped all together and put and "s" on the end, they're more in #.
so yeah, it's still minorities as in a group of minorities...... but if 1 of that group was more populous then white folks then they'd be the majority...and white people could join with the other minorities.
hahahah that's so wrong....
"Yo estoy lista tambien, yo uso el traductor de babelfish?"
This what you ment?
I have no idea how it's supposed to go, I don't speak Spanish. But apparently I need to learn.
I have no idea how it's supposed to go, I don't speak Spanish. But apparently I need to learn.
You live in San Antonio.... of course you do!
Mexicans need to stop having so many damn babies.
You live in San Antonio.... of course you do!
I know enough to find the restroom, order a beer.....and buy short fish for my ingrown coffee table....
I know enough to find the restroom, order a beer.....and buy short fish for my ingrown coffee table....
I judge people by how they act not how they look....
We have been a mixed culture community since we where founded so don't let the media stir up things....
and so was my fro.
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