Nothing new here, but a few reminders of some demographic realities:
1. The US will be a minority-majority nation by the time we reach the midway mark of this century.
2. Existing minority populations are spreading out from recent historical enclaves to all the same cities that whites are moving to, not to mention the same suburbs.
3. Racial intermarriage continues to increase; over 15% of new marriages are interracial.
I think that last item is the most important. It was apparently mildly scandalous in my family when my Italian Catholic mother married my Irish Catholic father. Today, nobody would give that a second thought, and the perceived differences between Italians and Irish in the US are limited to mostly innocuous descriptions (let alone my own status as a "multi-ethnic" child).
So, too, I suspect, that the artificial construct of "race" in this country will begin to fade away as the both physical proximity, numbers, and mixing blur those divisions. That sort of "mongrelization" was once of dire concern to the elites, and it still probably makes more people uncomfortable than care to admit it — but it seems the best hope for our country going forward.
(h/t +Les Jenkins)
March of the Non-White Babies
Demographer William Frey explains how minorities are poised to re-map America.
