This past Thursday, the Census Bureau announced that white
births now account for less than half of all births in the United States. For the first time, minorities account
for the majority of births (50.4%).
Dr. William H. Frey, SSDAN Director and senior demographer at the
Brookings Institution, explained, “This is an important tipping point.” He described the trend as a
“transformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized
multiethnic country that we are becoming.
Sabrina Tavernise of The New York Times writes that Hispanics, blacks,
and Asians accounted for 26%, 15%, and 4% respectively of births in the year
ending in July 2011. Still,
though, whites represent 49.6% of all births – the single largest share of any
ethnicity. Dr. Frey also
discovered another interesting fact: minorities accounted for a whopping 92
percent of all population growth in the decade ending in 2010. You can read the full New York Times
article here, which goes more into detail on historical implications and on
what else may have contributed to this fascinating trend.
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