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[Dogmeat]

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/whites_mi...2/11/71928.html

Whites to Become Minority in U.S. by 2050

Monday, February 11, 2008 9:20 PM

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WASHINGTON -- Non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 percent of U.S. population growth in coming years, a new study said on Monday.


The U.S. population will grow to 438 million in 2050 from 296 million in 2005 if current population trends continue, the Pew Research Center study found.


Non-Hispanic whites would account for 47 percent of the total in 2050, it concluded.


By that time, one in every five Americans will be a foreign-born immigrant, compared to one in eight in 2005.


"Of the 117 million people added to the population in this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren," the study said.


While the white population, with its lower fertility rate, ages, the Latino population, the nation's largest minority, will triple in size. Latinos will be responsible for 60 percent of the population growth until 2050.


They will account for 29 percent of the population, or 128 million in 2050, up from 14 percent now, the study said.


"The number of whites will increase, but only by 4 percent," said D'Vera Cohn, one of the report's authors.


The Asian population will almost double in percentage terms, from 5 to 9 percent, while blacks will remain around 13 percent of the total, the report said.


At the same time, the elderly population will more than double as the baby boom generation retires. The number of children and working-age people will grow more slowly.


Almost half of the new immigrants arriving the country will be from Latin American countries, said the other author of the study, Jeffrey S. Passel from the Pew Hispanic Center.

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Do you think maybe if we cease government-funded welfare programs now we can stem this tide?

[Spectatrix]

Who cares? Race isn't important -- attitude/ambition is.

[Hartmann]

Who cares? Race isn't important -- attitude/ambition is.

I agree. I was just asking his/her race to find out what side of the spectrum they were coming from. If a white person was making the argument that immigration would be cut off is different than a non-white person making the argument (at least to me).

[blaarg]

I agree. I was just asking his/her race to find out what side of the spectrum they were coming from. If a white person was making the argument that immigration would be cut off is different than a non-white person making the argument (at least to me).

why would it be different? If anything a non-white person would probably come to the same conclusions because of their own personal oppressions...they would understand that racism is still around and that the whites in power wouldn't let it happen...

[Hartmann]

why would it be different? If anything a non-white person would probably come to the same conclusions because of their own personal oppressions...they would understand that racism is still around and that the whites in power wouldn't let it happen...

I just think that people would have enough common sense to understand that your point is overblown. Yes there is racism but my friends of other nationalities don't think "whites in power" when I ask them about our government and immigration.

In that case, is every person going to Europe or Australia to assume that the whites run the government?