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African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities made up 50.4 percent of U.S. births.
By TIM MAK | 5/17/12 6:12 AM EDT
For the first time, racial minorities now represent more than half of the children born in the U.S., according to new census figures
African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities made up 50.4 percent of U.S. births in the year ending July 2011, accounting for 2.02 million births, up from 37 percent in 1990, according to the AP.
During that time period, there were 1.99 million white births, 1.05 million Hispanic births, 0.61 million black births, 0.25 million births that were classified two or more races, 0.19 million Asian births, 0.07 million Native American births and 0.01 million Pacific Islander births.
This is an important landmark, Roderick Harrison, a former head of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, told the wire service. This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76431.html#ixzz1v7iIxz9w
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)The very idea terrifies the hell out of me. The future looks like shit, the present is horrific, and people are mindlessly refusing to use birth control and thinking it's hilarious to bring kids to the world, and will probably leave those kids nothing to help them, so they'll have to fend against an ever-more-savage system of the right vs the rest.
ananda
(28,858 posts)The stressors on lives account for this.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)I want to put on myself, and kids require a LOT of everything. Also, to bring kids into a horrifically stressful time... well, it's just baffling to me. I guess some people handle stress better than I do maybe.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)we would all be long gone by now.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Response to cali (Original post)
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The Link
(757 posts)It is really no better than those you are trying to insult.
cali
(114,904 posts)Your sexism is shining through, pumpkin.
or it's something else and your idiot sexism, sweetpea.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)Er, right?
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Non-Hispanic whites @ 46%
Hispanic whites @ 28%
Hispanic whites are people like Carmen Diaz, Emilio Estevez, Andy Garcia, Christina Aguilera, etc.
http://www.alternet.org/media/151421/why_are_conservatives_scared_of_cameron_diaz/?page=entire
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)excel sheet in the article).
By 2050, 74% of the people will be self-identified as white. Non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic whites.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)In times of crisis, LOTS of people postpone childbearing, BUT if you are already poor, or see little if any chance of your circumstances improving, many cultures see babies as a hopeful/happy gift, regardless of their dire conditions.
If you look back in time, many of the upper-crusties managed to control their family size , while the "commoners" often had many children.. They did not have the pill then, so apparently at some point the husband was sent to his own room
Minorities are often poorer than their "white" counterparts, and often their religion stresses the importance of family. They also tend to cluster in familial living situations, so child care is a shared - multi-generational undertaking.