“For the first time, racial minorities now represent more than half of the children born in the U.S., according to new census figures,” Politico writes.
“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 Associated Press.
“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.”’
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The children of our immigrants have views that will not fit neatly into our older red and blue categories–but I do hope that they will agree to pay the bill baby boomer social security! The challenge for us who have been here is how to welcome and integrate them into what is already here in a fashion that means that they will still want to take care of us in our old age!
Fox must be going crazy on such scary news.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200605120006
SUMMARY: On The Big Story, John Gibson urged viewers to “[d]o your duty. Make more babies,” because he had found out, from a recently released report, that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: “You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic.” Gibson later repeated: “To put it bluntly, we need more babies.”