Introduction

A category called "some other race" is also used in the census and other surveys, but is not official. In addition, it was recently learned that the White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people of a Middle East and North Africa ethnic origin under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.^[2] In any case, whites are still classified as the racial majority while blacks are the largest racial minority.

It was also found online that a U.S. Census Bureau report stated America is heading toward the day when whites will no longer make up the majority of the population and U.S. children will get there the soonest. Based upon this growth, more than half of the U.S. children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group by 2020 putting Americans under the age of 18 at the front of a trend that will see the general population follow suit some 20 years later.^[3]

According to another online source, the American-born white population will become less than 50% before 2040. Overall, there will be a white decline and minority gain for most of the projection period with the majority-minority tipping point date being 2044, meaning that by 2045 the white population will become the racial minority.^[4] This is partly because the white U.S. population will grow more slowly over the next few decades due to declining fertility rates.

In the meantime, immigration rates will continue to rise as evidenced by the continuing illegal immigration from the Latin American countries and current influx of refugees from the Middle East. It was estimated that from 2015 to 2060 the country will lose 23 million U.S. born whites and gain 118 million racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants.^[5]

Thus, racial and ethnic minorities are currently growing more rapidly in numbers than whites, particularly among Hispanics and blacks, because such increase is being fueled by the rise in immigration mentioned in the preceding paragraph as well as the higher rates of birth within the aforesaid racial categories of people. This should not be a surprise to anyone because for years Americans of Hispanic and black descent have stood poised to topple the demographic dominance historically held by whites.^[6]

It was further found that for the first time in more than a century, the number of deaths now exceeds births among whites. This "natural decrease" occurred several years before the government's original projection, a sign of the decline in the white population.^[7] Other findings which confirm the pending transition of whites from a majority to minority race include, but certainly are not limited to, the following statistics:

• The minority U.S. population is projected to rise to 56% of the total in 2060, compared with 38% in 2014.^[8]
• By 2060, the nation's foreign-born population will reach nearly 19% of the total population, up from 13% in 2014.^[9]
• Between 2000 and 2010 there was a 32% increase of people who check more than one race in the census survey.^[10]
• The "two or more races" population is projected to be the fastest-growing over the next 46 years.^[11]

The implications of this shift in demographics go far beyond skin tone arguably contributing to the increased racial tensions across America to date, especially post-Ferguson together with the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement and kneeling for the national anthem. A 2014 study by Northwestern University psychologists showed that the concern of becoming the racial minority actually made white people more socially conservative which prompted certain fear and loathing (or distrust).^[12] The "fear" being the prospect of whites having to actually consider their race as not inhabiting the dominant position and the "distrust" for having to realize that they would live in a multi-racial world and will effectively become "othered" in census surveys by which both concerns support suspicion and perpetuate societal racial inequality.^[13]

In closing, it is important to point out that the Census Bureau's data and other findings presented herein provides undeniable proof of the imminent social change whereby whites are becoming a minority race in America. What the whites do with that data and how the overall population reacts to this change in racial categories remains to be seen. Regardless of the outcome, the purpose of the National Association for the Welfare of White Americans (NAWWA) is to inform the whites of their pending transition from a majority to minority race and then help them overcome any adversity that they incur during and after the transition.

References

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