Ronald Bailey on America’s Ethnic Makeup 2050

Ronald Bailey on America’s Ethnic Makeup 2050

February 21, 2012

America is not a tribe.Whites will become a minority of the American
population by 2050, according to Census Bureau projections.
But Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues
that the turning point has already happened. He tallies up all the
descendants from immigrant groups that were once not considered
“white” and adds them to the current federally recognized
ethnicities. According to the definitions applied by nativists a
century ago, 60 percent of the current population is not “white.”
And that’s a good thing. 

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