PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Anthony on June 22, 2017, 06:28:27 AM
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Our demographics are certainly changing. The key is that new immigrants that are "diverse" in nature assimilate, embrace American values, want to become "American", and become productive, law abiding citizens. I don't care about their skin color, ethnicity, race, or religion. All I care about is that they don't turn us into communist Europe.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is growing older and more ethnically diverse, a trend that could put strains on government programs from Medicare to education, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.
Every ethnic and racial group grew between 2015 and 2016, but the number of whites increased at the slowest rate — less than one hundredth of 1 percent or 5,000 people, the Census estimate shows. That's a fraction of the rates of growth for non-white Hispanics, Asians and people who said they are multi-racial, according to the government's annual estimates of population.
President Donald Trump's core support in the racially divisive 2016 election came from white voters, and polls showed that it was especially strong among those who said they felt left behind in an increasingly racially diverse country. In fact, the Census Bureau projects whites will remain in the majority in the U.S. until after 2040.
"Even then, (whites) will still represent the nation's largest plurality of people, and even then they will still inherit the structural advantages and legacies that benefit people on the basis of having white skin," said Justin Gest, author of "The New Minority," a book about the 2016 election.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/census-us-growing-older-more-racially-diverse-040317342--politics.html