{"id":23555,"date":"2012-05-18T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-after-years-of-speculation\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:34:21","slug":"kateoplis-after-years-of-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-after-years-of-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kateoplis.tumblr.com\/post\/23276080223\/after-years-of-speculation-estimates-and\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kateoplis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter years of speculation, estimates and projections, the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/census_bureau\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Census Bureau, U.S.\">Census Bureau<\/a>\u00a0has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities \u2014 including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race \u2014 reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Such a turn has been long expected, but no one was certain when the moment would arrive \u2014 signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/i\/immigration_and_refugees\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about immigration.\">immigration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While over all, whites will remain a majority for some time, the fact that a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority has broad implications for the country\u2019s economy, its political life and its identity. \u201cThis is an important tipping point,\u201d said William H. Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution, describing the shift as a \u201ctransformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized multiethnic country that we are becoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signs that the country is evolving this way start with the Oval Office, and have swept hundreds of counties in recent years, with 348 in which whites are no longer in the majority. That number doubles when it comes to the toddler population, Mr. Frey said. Whites are no longer the majority in four states and the District of Columbia, and have slipped below half in many major metro areas, including New York, Las Vegas and Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast raises important policy questions. The United States has a spotty record educating minority youth; will older Americans balk at paying to educate a younger generation that looks less like themselves? And while the increasingly diverse young population is a potential engine of growth, will it become a burden if it is not properly educated?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?_r=1\">Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. | NYTimes\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kateoplis: \u201cAfter years of speculation, estimates and projections, the\u00a0Census Bureau\u00a0has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.\u00a0 Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities \u2014 including Hispanics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-67V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}