White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That’s eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.
The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.
It is also growing older.
“The white population is older and very much centered around the aging baby boomers who are well past their high fertility years,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “The future of America is epitomized by the young people today. They are basically the melting pot we are going to see in the future.”
By 2050, whites will make up 46 percent of the population and blacks will make up 15 percent, a relatively small increase from today. Hispanics, who make up about 15 percent of the population today, will account for 30 percent in 2050, according to the new projections.
Asians, which make up about 5 percent of the population, are projected to increase to 9 percent by 2050.
I’m a color blind person, but these are bad demographics for conservatives. Blacks are as anti-conservative as they come, and hispanics vote heavily democratic, too. I’m not a math whiz, but if Bush won in 2000 and 2004 by slim margins, those margins will be long gone in the future. There are only 2 ways out of this. White americans have to have more babies or we have to convince hispanics and blacks to be conservative. Seeing as how that hasn’t worked up until now, I think whites have to start procreating or else conservatism in the US could die.
