Census: More minority U.S. births than white now

[Jazzy]

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 now slowing.



New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics 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. This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders.



The report comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the legality of Arizona's strict immigration law, with many states weighing similar get-tough measures.



Other findings:



-The migration of black Americans back to the South is slowing. New destinations in the South, including Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Orlando, Florida, saw sharp drop-offs in black population growth as the prolonged housing bust kept African-Americans locked in place in traditional big cities. Metro areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco had reduced declines or gains.



-Nine U.S. counties in five states saw their minority populations across all age groups surpass 50 percent last year. They were Sutter and Yolo in California; Quitman in Georgia; Cumberland in New Jersey; Colfax in New Mexico; and Lynn, Mitchell, Schleicher and Swisher in Texas.



-Maverick County, Texas, had the largest share of minorities at 96.8 percent, followed by Webb County, Texas, and Wade Hampton, Alaska, both at 96 percent.



-Four states - Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas - as well as the District of Columbia have minority populations that exceed 50 percent.



The census estimates used local records of births and deaths, tax records of people moving within the U.S., and census statistics on immigrants. The figures for white refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity.

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[Evil Eye]

...can you still call them a minority?

 

[Fatal Dawn]

By current trends Hispanics will soon become the majority.



There are many reasons blacks and Hispanics are moving further north (better education, lower cost of living, better standard of living). I live in South-Central Pennsylvania which literally touches the northern part of Maryland (about an a hour or so from Baltimore). There has been a lot of migration from Maryland up north to South-Central Pennsylvania because of all the aforementioned reasons. This is good for the South-Central Pennsylvania schools and communities which had no diversity whatsoever because of the white flight that had been occurring.