Minorities now account for most U.S. births, census data show

Our country is getting more diverse.  Non-Latino whites could become the minority in less than 25 years   - - Donna Poisl

from the Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is slowing.

New 2011 census estimates to be released Thursday highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged effect of a weak economy, which is resulting in fewer Latinos entering the U.S.

"This is an important landmark," said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University in Washington. "This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders."
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