Census: U.S. Moving Rapidly Toward Minority-Majority

Estimates from 2009 show whites will be a minority by 2050, we will see what the new census reports in a year or so. - - Donna Poisl

from HispanicBusiness.com

WASHINGTON - The minority population in the United States is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the total, advancing an unmistakable trend that could render them the new American majority by mid-century.

New Census estimates for 2009 show minorities added 2.5 per cent, or 107.2 million people, boosted by a surge in Hispanic births and more people who described themselves as multiracial. During this time, the white population remained flat, making up roughly 199.9 million, or 65 per cent, of the country.
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