Asian, Hispanic Populations Surge

[dArKeR]

The number of Hispanics and Asians in the United States each grew roughly four times faster than the nation's population overall between 2000 and 2003, the Census Bureau reported Monday.

The bureau's latest race and ethnicity breakdowns once again showed the increasing diversity of the U.S. populace, mirroring the explosive growth among minority groups detected in the previous decade by the 2000 head count.

Hispanics, the nation's largest minority, numbered 39.9 million in July 2003, up 13 percent from April 2000, according to the figures released Monday. The U.S. population overall grew 3 percent during that time to 290.8 million.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/14/national/main622942.shtml

[demnan]

1. Wouldn't it be something

if the mixed American Indian blood of many of the Hispanics became the majority ethnic group on this continent again?

[TexasMexican]

12. of that I have no doubt...

that it will be the case someday.

Its our manifest destiny. :P

[bemildred]

2. I look forward to the day when we are all a sort of

brownish-beige culturally anonymous stew, and I don't have to
listen to all this crap about which "race" is "winning" the
reproductive war.

[Doctor Smith]

3. We all lose the reproductive war.

Have you been to a national park lately?

[bemildred]

4. Los Angeles with trees.

But hey, capitalism requires growth, right?

[CrispyQ]

5. Saw a great bumper sticker -- wish I could find one . . .

Six billion miracles is enough!

[mom cat]

8. Great post...We also need one that says "Thanks for not over-copulating.

[spinbaby]

6. Sounds boring

Cultural diversity makes life interesting. What's the point of traveling if it all looks like Ohio?

[bemildred]

10. There are worse things than a bit of boredom.

And what do you have against Ohio anyway?

But seriously, I'm not looking to end diversity, I just
want to stop stuffing people into pigeonholes based on their
parental mix or surface characterisitics.

[CrispyQ]

7. So sad . . .

My mother has become so racist the past decade. Blacks, Hispanics & Asians are brown people & whites are Caucasians. We (whites) are in danger of extinction. ~~GASP!!! I can't believe this is the same woman who raised me. She's gonna vote bush, too. I swear, she picked up the wrong baby at the hospital!

[pauliedangerously]

9. Let them duke it out.

I refuse to procreate. I respect people who choose to have children, but far too many people "just have them" thus slowly reducing society to a human cesspool.

After all of the anguish I suffered through my teen years and my twenties, being a freethinker, and given the tidal wave of religious fundamentalism overtaking this country, I wouldn't be so cruel as to bring an innocent, unsuspecting life into this fiasco...much to the dismay of my dear parents, who really want grandchildren.

But they can't argue with my reasoning.

Sorry to sound negative, but I an scarred and callous. Every day I struggle to maintain my ideals, to avoid being led down the easy path as so many have.

[JayS]

11. "scarred and callous"

On the other hand, taking your experience and coping skills and teaching them to a child can give that kid the tools he/she will need to get over the bumps in life's road. :)

[pauliedangerously]

13. That's very true...

...if I were to raise a child, I would adopt instead of reproduce, though.

Thank you for the kind words.