{"id":38938,"date":"2014-12-17T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38938"},"modified":"2014-12-17T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:16:36","slug":"new-projections-point-to-a-majority-minority-nation-in-2044","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38938","title":{"rendered":"New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2014\/12\/12-majority-minority-nation-2044-frey\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings Instituion<\/a><br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\n2014-12-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/freyw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>William H. Frey<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Fellow<br \/>\nMetropolitan Policy Program<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2014\/12\/12-majority-minority-nation-2044-frey\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/Research\/Files\/Blogs\/2014\/12\/10%20frey%20blog\/2044.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2014\/cb14-tps86.html\" target=\"_blank\">New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau<\/a> indicate that the U.S. population will become \u201cmajority minority\u201d in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the population compared with 25 percent for Hispanics, 12.7 percent for blacks, 7.9 percent for Asians and 3.7 for percent multiracial persons. This tipping point will result from two countervailing trends that are projected to continue between now and 2060:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;These trends underscore the minority driven demographic transformation analyzed in my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38424\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America<\/em><\/a>, which outlines the challenges and opportunities associated with a nation whose youthful, growing minority population is juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining, white population.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2014\/12\/12-majority-minority-nation-2044-frey\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044 Brookings Instituion Washington, D.C. 2014-12-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau indicate that the U.S. population will become \u201cmajority minority\u201d in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[5384,18781,974,973],"class_list":["post-38938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bill-frey","tag-brookings-instituion","tag-william-frey","tag-william-h-frey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38938","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=38938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}