{"id":31847,"date":"2013-06-19T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31847"},"modified":"2013-06-19T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:02:19","slug":"whither-white-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31847","title":{"rendered":"Whither White America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/whither-white-america\" target=\"_blank\">Whither White America?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\" target=\"_blank\">The American Prospect<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/authors\/jamelle-bouie\" target=\"_blank\">Jamelle Bouie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>More thoughts on the future of white people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority-minority\u201d is an unusual term\u2014by definition, minorities are no longer such if they\u2019re in the majority\u2014but it\u2019s a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing population of nonwhites\u2014driven by Asian and Latino immigration\u2014will yield a country where most Americans have nonwhite heritage, thus \u201cmajority-minority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/06\/13\/18934111-census-white-majority-in-us-gone-by-2043?lite\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a> from the Census Bureau seems to bear this out. Last year was the first year that whites were a minority of all newborns, and based on current rates of growth, they\u2019ll become a minority of the under\u2013five set by next year, if not the end of this one. Overall, the government projects that within five years, <strong>minorities will compromise a majority of all Americans under the age of eighteen<\/strong>, something to keep in mind when trying to project future political support for both parties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;One fact stands out in all of this, however. The fastest growing group of Americans\u2014by far\u2014fall under the \u201cmultiracial category.\u201d If past research is any indication, these Americans are likely the product of intermarriage between whites and Hispanics (the most common interracial pairing) or whites and Asians (the next most common one). While we identify them as nonwhite, <strong>we don\u2019t know how they\u2019ll identify themselves in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that\u2014as (certain groups of) Latinos and Asians integrate themselves into American life\u2014<strong>a good number will identify themselves as white, with Hispanic or Asian heritage, in the same way that many white Americans point to their Irish or Italian backgrounds&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/whither-white-america\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whither White America? The American Prospect 2013-06-13 Jamelle Bouie More thoughts on the future of white people. \u201cMajority-minority\u201d is an unusual term\u2014by definition, minorities are no longer such if they\u2019re in the majority\u2014but it\u2019s a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[9476,5208],"class_list":["post-31847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jamelle-bouie","tag-the-american-prospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}