The Changing Face Of America

Census Data Reveals Jump In Minority Populations, Particularly Hispanics, And Not Just In Big Cities

(CBS)  Census figures reveal a new reality in America's classrooms, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. Minority populations are climbing everywhere.

"The white population, I wouldn't say is fading into the background, but it is becoming the older, less fertile part of the population," says demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute.

Frey crunched the census data and found huge jumps in the Hispanic population far from the traditional melting pots - up 21 percent in St. Joseph, Missouri; up 17 percent in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and 15 percent in Pascagoula, Mississippi - all in just one year's time.

"You're seeing it everywhere. People are going for jobs," Frey says. "They're going because they want the American Dream."

Whites still make up 66 percent of the population. But their numbers have grown only two percent since 2000, compared to eight percent for blacks, 29 percent for Hispanics and 26 percent for Asians.

"It's tough because we are seen as being either inconsequential or that we're not even really Americans," says Chinese-American writer Helen Zia.

It's forcing school systems to adjust quickly to new fault lines. In Maryland's Montgomery County outside Washington, D.C., the schools went from mostly white in the 1990s to 60 percent minorities today.

Superintendent Jerry Weast dropped class sizes, boosted literacy programs and now sends pamphlets to parents in six different languages.

"If you don't have a plan to accommodate the diversity and the poverty and the language, your community is gonna have a train wreck," Weast says.

The census bureau has long predicted that whites would drop below 50 percent of the population by the year 2050. Experts say the new data suggest that shift could come far sooner.

[avaughner]

here is a great webpage with awesome stats about the changing face of America: http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/bulletin/interactive/powerof50/divsam/index.html

[libsluv2spit]

This blending and melting pot of other non White races has not only happened in the United States. It has happened in Ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, and today its also happening in Britain and France. As more Whites mix with non Whites and illegal immigrants continue to have huge families, you will have a lessening of the dolichocephalic(long headed) intelligent Caucasian stock(Ben Franklin, Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Fulton, Eisenhower,Thomas Jefferson, and other greats. Most of the Whites that are of mixed race, will take on a brown or dark brown complection much like most Middle Easterners or Latin Americans. As the lessening of the Nordic or Caucasian strain continues as it has, education will be less stressed and the US will no longer have the intellect it strongly posessed from the time of the founding fathers till about 1960. Since 1960, education has plummeted, illegal immigration has been out of control, and the threat on America''''s superior dominance in the West has greatly diminished with poor leadership(George W. Bush and Congress), greedy CEO''''s, the ACLU, and teacher''''s unions. Neither far left wing(bleeding heart) ideas or far right wing ideas ever work. The entire administration and Congress should be disbanded and overhauled or else we will dig our own grave...

Posted by dan_8951 at 02:39 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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that was straight of mein kampf...the more i see people like you..the more i am glad of this change

[laurelblosso]

SO MUCH FOR WORK ETHICS

[barbaram99]

They think skin colour when it comes to this issuE.
I find it odd. Us blind are a minority. Oh yes I am white.

[barbaram99]

I only read and write english. Ye only saw english signs years ago.

[bhappy2-2]

ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are what has changed the hispanic ratio to where it currently is. By getting rid of the ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS we would be about where we need to be.

[toolmangler-2009]

Whatever happend to Americans being proud to be an American. These days everyone is African American, Spanish American and so on.
Posted by usuallyhere at 06:50 PM : Aug 08, 2008



I am proud to be an American I am also proud to be 1/4 American Indian (Not indian American) We put ''America'' first, Never last. I am also proud to be a ''Native American'' so we only call ourselves "American" period. I hope this answers your query.

[txgrouch2006]

Tortillas are replacing bread at the market.
Posted by tiddsanbeer at 07:15 PM : Aug 08, 2008

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! When we whites are a minority, we''ll RISE UP and DEMAND EQUAL SHELF SPACE FOR WHITE FOOD.

Well, except bread is FLUFFIER than tortillas, so we need MORE SHELF SPACE to be EQUAL!

WE NEED TO STICK IT TO THE MAN!!!

[txgrouch2006]

You realize that just because you`re a minority, the unemployment and welfare check will continue to be the same.
Posted by Nancy_Naive at 05:17 PM : Aug 08, 2008

Wait, you get WELFARE????

WHOOPEEEEEEE! That''s more than I''m making now.

[txgrouch2006]

8. Notice computer timed out. Say "What''s wrong with this @*%! thing." Start it up again. Look at watch, notice it''s time for afternoon coffee break.
9. Get back from break area around four, four thirtyish.
10. Notice computer timed out again. Say "I''m gonna call tech support about this @*%! computer."
11. Start computer again. Call another minority guy while computer is starting up. Talk about sports and minority issues.
12. Get off phone around five thirty, sixish. Notice computer timed out again. Say, "I''ve HAD IT with this @*%! computer!" Make sure you use the same profanity every time, every day.
13. Boss checks on you around sixish. Complain about lousy computer, you haven''t been able to get any work done all day. Ask boss if you''re "on the list" for a promotion. Boss says "You bet, we''re on an initiative to promote more minorities."
14. Boss leaves office six thirtyish. Time to go home!

I CAN''T WAIT to be a minority.

[txgrouch2006]

Now Amigo Grouch, heres a few tips on surviving
1. Be on Time ...
Posted by six-six-seis at 05:15 PM : Aug 08, 2008

BAHAHAHAHA! Good one!

"Be on time," and all the rest. That''s EXACTLY what it was like when I WASN''T a minority, and I had 15+ years with the company.

The minority guys were more like:

1. Show up for work around tennish.
2. Get a cup of coffee and chat with the other minority guys.
3. Actually put butt in chair around eleven, eleven thirtyish.
4. Turn on computer; while it''s starting up, look at watch and notice it''s lunch time.
5. Get back from lunch around one thirty, twoish.
6. Finish lunchtime conversation about sports and minority issues.
7. Put butt back in chair around threeish.

[usuallyhere]

Whatever happend to Americans being proud to be an American. These days everyone is African American, Spanish American and so on. Should Americans not be united as a nation of fellow Americans? No wonder there is such segregation amongst the different races. Oh Yeah, speaking English should not be a handicap and the people who think so should go back to their country of choice where I''m sure they will be welcomed with open arms.

[six-six-seis]

Now Amigo Grouch, heres a few tips on surviving
as a minority in the workforce, provided you get in with a good company.

1. Be on Time and ready to work 10 minutes before you actually have to, this will give your employer less
of an excuse to fire you, or as they put it,
lay you off. and it will show your superior your good work ethic.

2. work twice as diligently as the "Majority"
to get half as far in your career field, its expected
that you as a minority will not get very many
promotions unless you excell in what you do,
or have outstanding dual language skills, this is actually a plus, so take that night class
and neglect your family for a while,
if you have to get a second job to pay for the
classes on weekends.

3. expect to be looked over for promotions quite a bit, and when that happens, dont rock the boat,
it will just be looked upon as being lazy on your part.

4. always be courteous to everyone even if you have a complaint and quite possibly offer solutions,
dont be angry when pushing an issue, stay polite at all times, you dont want to give the impression you dont like your job, you might come in on a monday and find your chair already populated by someone else...

these are just a few timps on surviving as a minority in the workforce.
i hope this helps.....

just doing my part to educate what its like and make it a little easier for your transition...

[six-six-seis]

Posted by txgrouch2006..
well im officially welcoming you as a minority.
Welcome Amigo Grouch.

[txgrouch2006]

Pinches pendejos!!!

Now I REALLY can''t wait to be a minority, so I can STICK IT TO THE MAN!

[six-six-seis]

txgrouch2006..LOL...

that was a great spanish lesson we had....

shall we continue it...


:)

[txgrouch2006]

Hey, they deleted my post just because I said "a m i g o!"

IT''S HAPPENING! NOW IT''S THE "A-WORD!!!!!"

[txgrouch2006]

whinning wont get you anywhere but in the doctors office for high blood pressure.
Posted by six-six-seis at 04:34 PM : Aug 08, 2008

What high blood pressure? I''m already picking out a tree to tie my hammock to. Problem is, I have only one tree..

What was it you taught me to say yesterday? Donde esta pendejo, or something like that?

Well, same to you my friend!

[six-six-seis]

Posted by txgrouch2006 ,
everythings already printed in English,
but you have the option of choosing it in spanish.
things are changing, looks like you will go by way of the Dinosaur, dont blame the system blame yourself for not seeing the future and acting to it...

whinning wont get you anywhere but in the doctors office for high blood pressure.

[six-six-seis]

Boo Hoo.
just learn Spanish and get yourself employed,
Quit Whinning already,