Minorities drive U.S. population growth

The nation is nearing the close of a decade that has been dominated by robust growth in minority populations that could redefine who is a minority.

Census population estimates out Thursday show that on July 1, 2009, minorities made up more than half the population in 317 counties, four states (Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas) and the District of Columbia.

The detailed estimates provide a final glimpse of the USA’s demographic transformation this decade. Official results of the 2010 Census, now being conducted, will come out beginning in December. They will be used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives and serve as the basis for the allocation of more than $400 billion a year in federal funds.

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One comment on “Minorities drive U.S. population growth

  1. deaconjohn25 says:

    Virtually all the stories I have read of the growth of minorities in this country as a percentage of the population has emphasized the influx of immigrants and, sometimes, how they have large families.
    But that is only half the equation. The other half–never mentioned-is that the percentage of Americans of European stock is shrinking because that part of the population is comitting self-genocide through its determined use of birth control and abortion. European stock Americans can ridicule and mock God’s injunction to “be fruitful and multiply” for only so long before they are replaced and sent to history’s graveyard of irrelevant or extinct peoples.