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SEP
11
American Makeover
By:
Michael E. Ross
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SEP
11
It had been expected for weeks and months, but its arrival on August 12 – a chronicle of an evolution foretold - announced itself like a thunderclap: According to results of the 2020 census, the United States of America is experiencing unprecedented growth in its minority communities, with black and brown populations showing robust growth, and numbers of white Americans growing more slowly, so much so that the nation’s white majority is the smallest it’s been in more than 200 years. Data from the official U.S. Census 2020, the decennial survey of the nation’s people prescribed in the Constitution, finds that the United States experienced panoramic change in its demographic makeup, with its white non-Hispanic population dropping to 57.8 percent (191 million), an 8.6 percent decline since the 2010 census (196 million), and the lowest percentage of white Americans since 1790. In addition to that, the Hispanic population of the country has grown to 18.7 percent
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MAY
22
Más change in America
By:
Michael E. Ross
on
MAY
22
IN A MATERNITY ward in a hospital somewhere in America sometime in the last year, a newborn baby became more of a milestone event than his or her parents could have possibly imagined. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, that’s when the American future arrived. That’s when the future of a nonwhite majority America passed from demographic theory to national fact. The Washington Post reported (among numerous other news outlets weighing in) reported that Census Bureau population estimates “show that 50.4 percent of children younger than 1 last year were Hispanic, black, Asian American or in other minority groups. That’s almost a full percentage point higher than the 49.5 percent of minority babies counted when the decennial census was taken in April 2010. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “The latest estimates, which gauge changes since the last census, are a reflection of an immigration wave that began f
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